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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

The funding was led Khosla Ventures, which was an early backer for Open AI, as well as Index Ventures and First Round Capital

Updated On: 10 Jan 2024 | 10:19 AM IST

Parag Agrawal, ousted last year by new owner Elon Musk, and other former executives said in a Delaware Chancery Court lawsuit

Updated On: 11 Apr 2023 | 8:51 AM IST

Elon Musk has reportedly given an ultimatum to the employees to roll out monthly subscription pack for Twitter Blue by November 7

Updated On: 01 Nov 2022 | 12:36 PM IST

Agrawal, 38, was appointed Twitter CEO in November last year after the social media site's co-founder Jack Dorsey stepped down

Updated On: 29 Oct 2022 | 12:19 AM IST

On Thursday, Musk closed the acquisition deal for $44 billion and reportedly fired its top executives, including chief executive Parag Agrawal and its head of legal policy Vijaya Gadde

Updated On: 28 Oct 2022 | 12:41 PM IST

Elon Musk plans to assume the role of CEO at Twitter Inc after completing his $44 billion acquisition, taking the helm of the social media giant on top of leading Tesla Inc. and SpaceX

Updated On: 28 Oct 2022 | 11:53 AM IST

Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who continued to do his job to change the platform for better "despite the noise" coming from Elon Musk, never put his foot down against the Tesla CEO

Updated On: 28 Oct 2022 | 11:24 AM IST

Twitter's top executives stand to make a total of $88 million between them -- Parag Agrawal alone will get $38.7 million -- after being ousted by Elon Musk

Updated On: 28 Oct 2022 | 11:25 AM IST

Elon Musk became Twitter Inc's new owner on Thursday, firing top executives he had accused of misleading him

Updated On: 28 Oct 2022 | 8:03 AM IST

Elon Musk took control of Twitter on late Thursday (local time) and fired its top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal

Updated On: 28 Oct 2022 | 12:57 PM IST

Twitter Inc CEO Parag Agrawal is among executives planning to depart as Elon Musk completes his $44 billion deal to take over the social network

Updated On: 28 Oct 2022 | 7:18 AM IST

Peiter Zatko, Twitter's ex-head of security, said he burned 10 handwritten notebooks and deleted 100 computer files at the behest of company managers as part of his separation agreement

Updated On: 11 Oct 2022 | 10:43 PM IST

Elon Musk and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal are seeking to reschedule their depositions in the company's lawsuit over Musk's $44 billion buyout

Updated On: 27 Sep 2022 | 7:59 AM IST

Twitter whisleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko is set to testify at US Congess on September 13 about allegation he leveled against the Parag Agrawal-led micro-blogging platform

Updated On: 25 Aug 2022 | 7:14 PM IST

Twitter General Counsel Sean Edgett also told employees the company reached out to various agencies around the world before the news broke.

Updated On: 24 Aug 2022 | 11:31 PM IST

The new group is set to be called 'Health Products and Services (HPS)', and will be led by Ella Irwin, Twitter's VP of Product

Updated On: 24 Aug 2022 | 10:41 PM IST

Musk was fully aware of the bot issue when he signed the deal to buy the company, Twitter's lawyers said in a filing Monday

Updated On: 19 Jul 2022 | 7:29 AM IST

'Your lawyers are using these conversations to cause trouble. That needs to stop,' Musk's text reportedly read

Updated On: 17 Jul 2022 | 9:38 AM IST

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's legal team has reportedly asked the court to push back the Twitter trial by early 2023, saying that the case requires "forensic review and analysis" of a deep pool of data

Updated On: 16 Jul 2022 | 12:58 PM IST

On Monday, Musk took a jab at Twitter's stance, tweeting that the legal battle would lead to the company disclosing information on bots and spam accounts in court

Updated On: 11 Jul 2022 | 4:19 PM IST