Parag Agrawal Is the CEO of Twitter i.e., Chief Executive Officer. He got a promotion in November 2021. He is an Indian-American technology executive.
Earlier in 2011, Parag Agrawal started working in Twitter as a software engineer and got the promotion to the post of Chief Technology Officer in 2017.
On 29th November 2021, the former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, announced he’s resigning news and confirmed that Parag Agrawal will be replacing him as the new CEO.
Education
But I’ll go ball studied from Atomic Energy Central School No. 4. As per sources, Shreya Ghoshal was her classmate during his school time. In the year 2001, he won a gold medal for International Physics Olympiad that was held in Turkey.
Parag Agrawal’s IIT rank was 77, in the year 2000, when he was planning to pursue B.Tech. In the year 2005, He completed his graduation from IIT Bombay, with a degree in computer science and engineering.
Parag Agrawal went to Stanford University after he shifted to the United States for pursuing his higher studies. He has done Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. He earned Dr. as a prefix before his name, therefore, he is popularly known as Dr. Parag Agrawal.
Parag Agrawal: Career
In October 2017, Parag Agrawal joined Twitter as Chief Technology Officer. Before joining Twitter Parag was working at Microsoft Research and Yahoo research team. According to Parag Agrawal’s biography, it says that “Twitter’s technical strategy and overseeing machine learning and AI across the consumer, revenue, and science teams.”
In December 2019, Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter, offered the charge of handling Project Bluesky. As per sources, “it is an independent team of open source architects common genius and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media that would help better control abusive and misleading information on this platform.”
On 29th November 2021, He became the CEO of Twitter after Jack Dorsey resigned.
Parag Agrawal’s salary as CEO of Twitter is $2.5 million annually, which is around 7.5 crores INR. The estimated amount for Parag Agrawal’s Twitter net worth is $1.5 million.
Parag Agrawal’s Personal Life
Parag Agarwal belongs from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He was born in the year 1983-1984. Parag Agrawal’s religion is Hinduism.
Parag Agrawal’s wife’s name is Vineeta Agrawal. As per sources, she is working as a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. She is involved in works such as investments in biology companies that include diagnostics, digital health, and therapeutics.
Parag Agrawal’s parents have worked very hard in their life to offer him a smooth life. His dad was working in the Indian Department of Atomic Energy whereas his mom is a retired school teacher.