What kind of person is Twitter's new CEO 'Parag Agrawal'?



On November 30, 2021,

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stepped down and was named Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal. Agrawal, who has rarely appeared in public so far, has been explained again by the media companies.

Who Is Parag Agrawal, Twitter's New CEO? - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/29/technology/parag-agrawal-twitter.html

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal key to Dorsey's plans to revamp social media
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/29/twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-key-to-dorseys-plans-to-revamp-social-media.html

An introduction to Parag Agrawal, Twitter's new CEO - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/29/22808756/twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-jack-dorsey-bluesky-moderation

Mr. Agrawal, an Indian born in Mumbai, India, studied computer science and engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, one of the country's top universities. In 2005, he moved to the United States and enrolled at Stanford University to pursue a PhD in computer science. The research theme I chose was the construction of a database that allows computers to store and retrieve large amounts of digital information.

According to Jennifer Widom, who was his supervisor at the time, ``He stood out among Stanford students in his understanding of mathematics and theory, which are the foundations of computer science,'' and there was no problem with his research theme. , Agrawal joined Twitter before completing his PhD. This joining was in 2011, and at that time Twitter had less than 1000 employees.

Twitter, which handles data from tens of millions of people around the world, also fits Agrawal's major, and he soon becomes a key member of the engineering team overseeing advertising technology. The advertising team is one of the first teams to start using so-called machine learning within the company, and Mr. Agrawal developed a targeted advertising system using machine learning that greatly contributed to the company's revenue and received an internal award called 'Distinguished Engineer'. I became the first person to receive the award.



After that, Mr. Agrawal joined a team called 'Twitter Architecture Group' to review and improve projects under development consisting of top engineers. When Mr. Dorsey became CEO in 2015, he devoted himself to building the 'timeline' function of the Twitter application as Mr. Dorsey's right hand and was promoted to Chief Technology Officer in 2017.

After being appointed Chief Engineer, in 2019 he was appointed as the supervisor of Mr. Dorsey's project, Bluesky. Mr. Agrawal also supported the efforts to do so and urged him to publish the results of the survey that there is a bias in the image cropping algorithm.

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Mr. Agrawal is from an engineering field and is not well known outside the company, but he is highly trusted within the company, and when he assumed the position of CEO this time, the board of directors unanimously appointed Mr. Agrawal. Dorsey has commented, 'My trust in him as our CEO is bone-deep (I trust him as CEO from the bone marrow)'.

“I am deeply grateful to @jack and my team and very excited about the future,” Agrawal said on Twitter.




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