Parag Agrawal Biography – Parag Agrawal Wiki
Parag Agrawal is an Indian-American technology executive and the chief executive officer (CEO) of Twitter since November 2021. He joined Twitter as a distinguished software engineer in 2011 and became the chief technology officer in 2017. On November 29, 2021, Jack Dorsey announced that he was resigning as CEO of Twitter and that Agrawal was replacing him, with immediate effect.
In October 2017, Twitter announced the appointment of Agrawal as chief technology officer (CTO) after the departure of Adam Massinger. Agrawal had joined the company in October 2011 as a software engineer. Before joining Twitter, he held leadership positions at Microsoft Research and Yahoo! Research. According to Agrawal’s biography on the Twitter leadership page, he is responsible for “Twitter’s technical strategy and overseeing machine learning and AI across the consumer, revenue, and science teams”. In December 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Agrawal would be in charge of Project Bluesky, “an independent team of open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media that would help better control abusive and misleading information on its platform”.
In an interview with MIT Technology Review in November 2020, when asked about balancing the protection of free speech as a core value and the endeavor to combat misinformation, Agrawal said: “Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment, but our role is to serve a healthy public conversation … focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.” On November 29, 2021, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that he was resigning from Twitter and that Agrawal would be the new CEO of the company. Following the announcement, Agrawal faced criticism for a 2010 tweet that read, “If they are not gonna make a distinction between Muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists.” He claimed to be quoting Aasif Mandvi during a story on The Daily Show.
He studied at Atomic Energy Central School No.4. He was a classmate of singer Shreya Ghoshal. Agrawal won a gold medal at the 2001 International Physics Olympiad held in Turkey. He earned 77th rank in the Joint Entrance Exam in 2000, and Agrawal obtained his B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2005. He then moved to the United States to pursue a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University.
Parag Agrawal Age
He was born on May 21, 1984, in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
Parag Agrawal Wife
He is married to Vineeta Agrawal. She is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm, and leads “investments in biology companies, including therapeutics, diagnostics, and digital health”. They have one son.
Parag Agrawal Children
He is a father of a son, Anaamika.
Parag Agrawal Family
He was born in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. Later he moved to Mumbai. His father was a senior official in the Indian Department of Atomic Energy and his mother is a retired school teacher.
Parag Agrawal Instagram
His Instagram handle is @paraga. He is also on Twitter as @paraga.
