Parag Agarwal was removed by Musk, now his AI startup is worth $2bn
Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has transitioned from his high-profile role at the social media company to building a new AI startup valued at $2 billion. The article details his academic background and career trajectory from IIT Bombay to Silicon Valley.
Why it matters
The career shift of high-profile tech executives highlights the ongoing talent migration toward the generative AI sector.
In 2006, when Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, announced his resignation from the social media company, Parag Agarwal who had been working in the company for 10 years was promoted to replace him. The technologist who had till then remained a relatively low profile was in the limelight front and centre and the world was ready to see what he had to do. “He’s been my choice for some time given how deeply he understands the company and its needs,” Dorsey wrote of Agrawal. “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 wrote, according to Variety.Over the years, Parag Agarwal has left the company and created his own space in the tech world, ushering in the AI boom.The beginning of a tech titanParag Agarwal was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra in 1894.
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