With over a yr later, after Elon Musk took over the social media platform X(previously Twitter), Walter Isaacson who wrote the biography “ELon Musk” and shall be printed on 12 September has given an in depth account on why Elon Musk sacked Parag Agrawal, the then Twitter CEO.In an excerpt carried out by The Wall Street Journal , Musk who had a gathering with Parag Agrawal mentioned he was a “very nice man.” “What Twitter wants is a fire-breathing dragon,” Elon Musk mentioned after that assembly, as per biographer Isaacson. “And Parag is just not that.” Elon Musk met Parag Agrawalover a dinner in March 2022, in line with the biographer.
Lower than a yr into his job as CEO, India-born Agrawal was ousted from the corporate by its new proprietor billionaire Elon Musk after Musk in 44 billion greenback deal acquired the social media behemoth.
An IIT Bombay and Stanford alumnus, Agrawal joined Twitter in 2011 when there have been fewer than 1,000 workers. Rising within the firm, he turned Twitter’s chief know-how officer in 2017. Thought of a protege of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Agrawal was appointed CEO of Twitter after Dorsey stepped down.
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