Who Is Parag Agrawal ? Indian-Born Software Engineer To Replace Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey

Who is Parag Agrawal? The Indian software engineer has grabbed headlines over his high profile promotion at San Francisco-based social media firm Twitter. Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter stepped down on Monday and his position will be taken up by Agrawal.

Agrawal joined the long list of Indian-born individuals leading global firms. In a statement on the micro-blogging site, Agrawal wrote, "I am honoured and humbled. And I'm grateful for your continued mentorship and your friendship. I'm grateful for the service that you built, the culture, soul, and purpose you fostered among us and for leading the company through really significant challenges."

Who Is Parag Agrawal? Here What We Know Of Him:

• Agrawal has been working at Twitter since the past decade. Starting as Distinguished Software Engineer, he is currently the Chief Technology Officer at the micro-blogging site.
• The Indian-American executive was head of Twitter's technical strategy and oversaw machine learning and Artificial Intelligent across revenue, customer, science teams.
• Before joining Twitter, Agrawal was working at Yahoo, Microsoft and AT&T labs.
• He went to Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay for a B.Tech degree in Computer Science then went on to complete his PhD from Stanford University.
• According to a report by PeopleAI, he is currently has the net worth of over one million dollars
• Agrawal has contributed to Twitter's Bluesky effort which aims at creating decentralised and open standard for social media platform.
• Jack Dorsey wrote a glowing recommendation for Parag Agrawal. In a lengthy email Dorsey wrote, "The board ran a rigorous process considering all options and unanimously appointed Parag. He's been my choice for some time, given how deeply he understands the company and its needs. Parag has been behind every critical decision that helped turn this company around. He's curious, probing, rational, creative, demanding, self-aware, and humble. He leads with heart and soul and is someone I learn from daily. My trust in him as our CEO is bone-deep."

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