Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced on Monday that he had resigned as CEO effective immediately.
Jack Dorsey also announced Parag Agrawal as his replacement.
With Twitter still suspended in Nigeria, WuzupNigeria brings you things you should know about the new Twitter boss, Parag Agrawal, who will be ensuring the platform gets up and running soon in Africa’s most populous country.
- Parag Agrawal is an Indian-American.
- He earned an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
- He also has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University.
- He joined Twitter in October 2011 as an ads engineer and soon after held the title of the company’s ‘distinguished software engineer.’
- Twitter appointed Agrawal as its chief technology officer in 2017.
- Before joining Twitter, he did research internships at AT&T, Microsoft and Yahoo.
- He had been in charge of strategy involving artificial intelligence and machine learning.
- He led projects to make tweets in users’ timelines more relevant to them.
- Agrawal was also previously tasked with finding a leader for Project Bluesky, a research project Twitter launched to establish open and decentralised standards for social media platforms.
