Parag Agrawal reveals the one person who shaped how he ran Twitter
Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has named Microsoft's Satya Nadella as the leader whose transformation of the company shaped how he approached running Twitter.
Parag Agrawal, who was ousted as Twitter CEO after Elon Musk acquired the platform, has named the leader who shaped how he approached the job: Microsoft’s Satya Nadella.
‘When I took the job at Twitter, I was really inspired by Satya, and I used to call him the founder — or a re-founder, or whatever you want to call that,’ Agrawal said in an interview earlier this year.
Agrawal explained that taking over the top job at Twitter forced him to figure out what the company was going to become under his leadership and how it would differentiate itself in a crowded tech market. ‘The inspiration I got on someone like completely changing a company, a business, a culture, a product came from Satya, and I thought of wanting to be a founder in that mold, in that moment,’ he said.
Agrawal did not have standard founder status at Twitter — he rose through the ranks as the company’s CTO before succeeding co-founder Jack Dorsey. He is now the founder of AI startup Parallel Web Systems, describing being a founder as ‘a state of mind.’
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