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Who is Parag Agrawal?

Parag Agrawal is an Indian-American CEO of Twitter Inc. He was elevated to the post after Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey stepped down in November 2021. In the past, Agarwal was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the social media firm. He is the youngest CEO leading a Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 company and is also part of a select group of CEOs of Indian origin heading technology companies in the US.
 

Early life and education

Parag Agrawal was born in Maharashtra. His mother is a retired school teacher and his father was employed in the atomic energy sector. Agrawal studied at the Atomic Energy Central School in Mumbai. He completed his B Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay (IIT Bombay) in 2005. 
 
Later, he moved to the United States and joined Twitter in 2011 while still pursuing his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in California.
 

Parag Agrawal's career

Parag Agrawal joined Twitter as a Distinguished Software Engineer and was elevated as chief technology officer in 2017. Agrawal joined Twitter at a time when the company had fewer than 1,000 employees. 
 
He worked on boosting audience growth and revenue. According to his LinkedIn profile, he has also worked with AT&T Labs Inc, Microsoft and Yahoo!. 
 
As a CTO, Agrawal managed Twitter's technical strategy and was responsible for improving the pace of software development, while advancing the use of machine learning across the company.
 

Project Bluesky

Since December 2019, Parag has been working on Project Bluesky, an independent team of open source architects, engineers and designers to combat abusive and misleading information on Twitter. 

Latest Updates on Parag Agrawal

Experts say Musk can't unilaterally place the deal on hold, although that hasn't stopped him from acting as though he can

Updated On: 22 Nov 2022 | 8:30 PM IST

He tweeted: "To find out, my team will do a random sample of 100 followers of @twitter. I invite others to repeat the same process and see what they discover"

Updated On: 14 May 2022 | 3:00 PM IST

Agrawal said that regardless of the company's future ownership, Twitter will be improved as a product and business for customers, partners, shareholders, and all of the users

Updated On: 14 May 2022 | 10:52 AM IST

Most of the vapourisation is coming from investors abandoning Tesla. Their carp is that legal issues at Twitter might distract the maverick suitor

Updated On: 14 May 2022 | 7:18 AM IST

In a series of tweets Thursday, Kayvon Beykpour who is leaving after 7 years, said CEO Parag Agrawal asked me to leave after letting me know that he wants to take the team in a different direction.

Updated On: 13 May 2022 | 8:13 AM IST

CEO Agrawal had told employees that there would be "no layoffs at this time". However, according to reports, one area where Musk may make job cuts is the company's policy department

Updated On: 29 Apr 2022 | 11:05 AM IST

Agrawal has earlier said that "Twitter has a purpose and relevance that impacts the entire world"

Updated On: 28 Apr 2022 | 12:34 PM IST

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has told worried employees that he doesn't know what direction this company will go in once the whopping $44 billion deal closes with new owner billionaire Elon Musk

Updated On: 26 Apr 2022 | 11:40 AM IST

Dorsey, who left Twitter in November last year -- handing over the baton to Indian-origin Parag Agrawal -- remains a board member until next month with his 2.2% share

Updated On: 18 Apr 2022 | 12:28 PM IST

Musk was responding to a tweet about board members' stock holdings, saying that with the departure of Jack Dorsey, the board "collectively owns almost no shares."

Updated On: 18 Apr 2022 | 12:46 AM IST

Twitter Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal told staff that the board was continuing to review Musk's offer, but that he was limited in what he could share with the employees

Updated On: 16 Apr 2022 | 1:39 AM IST

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and now the largest shareholder in the micro-blogging site Twitter, has decided not to join the Twitter board. He owns a 9.2% stake, worth nearly $3 billion, in Twitter Inc

Updated On: 11 Apr 2022 | 9:20 AM IST

In a series of polls on the micro-blogging site, the Tesla CEO asked Twitteratis whether Twitter's San Francisco headquarters should be converted to a homeless shelter since "no one shows up anyway"

Updated On: 10 Apr 2022 | 5:39 PM IST

In a sign of how quickly norms are evolving at US companies, the big question sparked by Parag Agrawal's announcement was why he wasn't using more of the 20 weeks that Twitter offers

Updated On: 18 Feb 2022 | 3:21 PM IST

High achievers in the corporate world; a media potboiler we could do without; and heartfelt goodbyes. 2021 had it all, but a year of renewal and hope was summed up best by olympic glory for the ages

Updated On: 12 Jan 2023 | 11:57 PM IST

Should we not stop uncritically celebrating NRIs' elevation without regard to what kind of companies they are getting to run, and the nature of their products or business practices, wonders T N Ninan

Updated On: 10 Dec 2021 | 11:25 PM IST