Who is Parag Agarwal? Why he Was Sacked As Twitter CEO.

By Maahir October 29, 2022

Parag Agarwal of Indian origin joined Twitter in November 2021 as CEO.

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He is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and Stanford. . He joined the company when Twitter had less than a 1000 employees.

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Elected Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the company in 2017.

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One of the youngest to head a major technology company. Parag is 38 years old.

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Elon Musk, who has backed down on the issue of fake accounts, has accused Agarwal of misleading him.

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With this, Parag Agarwal asked Elon, "Is Twitter going to die?" The relationship between them damaged after tweeting that.

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His total compensation in 2021 is $30.4 million, mostly in stock awards, according to a Roiters report.

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Reports say he is likely to get 42 million after Twitter exit.

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A year's worth of merit based on research done by Equities and all equity awards are on accelerated vesting.

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