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Some Lesser Known Facts About Parag Agrawal
Parag Agrawal is an Indian IITian who became the youngest CEO of Twitter on 29 November 2021. He is an Indian-American who was appointed on the post after the resignation of Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter. It was in news for months that the Twitter board was replacing Jack Dorsey and was searching for someone else. The in-house candidate of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, was working as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the company before being appointed as the CEO.
In 2001, Parag won a gold medal in the Physics Olympiad that was held in Istanbul.
Parag Agrawal with teammates in Istanbul after winning the gold medal
In 2005, Parag Agrawal shifted to the US. He was completing his doctorate when he joined Twitter in 2011. It is said that the thesis guide ‘Jennifer Widom’ of Parag of Agrawal motivated him to complete his education.
Parag Agrawal did B.Tech. in Computer Science Engineering from IIT Mumbai in 2005 after securing 77 All India Rank in Joint Entrance Exam in 2000. In 2012, he completed his PhD in Computer Science at Standford University. Soon after completing his education, Parag worked in the research field of Microsoft, Yahoo, and AT&T Labs, Inc. In 2011, he joined Twitter as a Distinguished Software Engineer. In the beginning, he was appointed for working on the ad-related products of Twitter, later, he was swapped on Artificial Intelligence. In 2017, Parag Agrawal was promoted as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the company after replacing the former CTO Adam Massinger. Twitter wrote about Parag after appointing Parag as its CTO. It read,
In his capacity as CTO, he’s focused on scaling a cohesive machine learning and AI approach across our consumer and revenue product and infrastructure teams.”
Parag Agrawal is known as one of the top engineers of the Twitter group, who worked with the TAG group of Twitter that was responsible for the new products and technologies of Twitter. In 2019, Parag held the responsibility of Twitter’s new decentralised social media project titled Bluesky by Jack Dorsey.
As the CTO of Twitter, apart from being in the leadership position, he was also a contributor in:
Twitter’s technical strategy and overseeing machine learning and AI across the consumer, revenue, and science teams.”
In November 2021, Twitter in its report stated that Parag Agrawal would get $1 million annually as the CEO of the company and in addition to this, he was given a $12.5 million stocks investment.
Bollywood singer Shreya Ghoshal is the childhood friend of Parag Agrawal. She congratulated him on Twitter while responding to Parag’s post on 29 November 2021.
Shreya Ghoshal’s Twitter post while congratulating Parag Agrawal
Parag Agrawal while posing with Shreya Ghoshal
Several renowned newspapers often share the successful career journey of Parag Agrawal in their articles.
The life story of Parag Agrawal covered by the Times of India
Parag Agrawal was criticised by the conservatives on several social media accounts soon after being appointed as the CEO of Twitter for his tweet that he posted in 2010 in response to Aasif Mandvi’s Tweet for his story on The Daily Show. The Tweet read as:
If they are not gonna make a distinction between Muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists.”
Parag Agrawal is a big fan of watching cricket.
Parag Agrawal while celebrating the victory of the Indian cricket team