Parag Agrawal has been with Twitter for more than a decade and has served as Chief Technology Officer since 2017. "I look forward to building on everything we have accomplished under Jack's leadership and I am incredibly energised by the opportunities ahead," he said.
"Our purpose has never been more important. Our people and our culture are unlike anything in the world. There is no limit to what we can do together," the new CEO wrote.
After Jack Dorsey's resignation, Indian-origin Paras Agarwal is all set to head Twitter as the new CEO. He is a graduate from IIT Bombay.
Dorsey is also the top executive at Square, a financial payments company that he founded, and some big investors have openly questioned whether he can be effective leading both.
Parag Agrawal had joined the microblogging site in 2011 as an Ads Engineer and has served as CTO since 2017.
At the event, one of the attendees interrupted the discussion at one point, seemingly accusing Dorsey of undue censorship of free speech through Twitter.
The auction for the very first tweet by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has fetched $2.4 million (a little over Rs 18 crore), which the billionaire would donate in Bitcoins to a charity.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and rap artist Jay-Z will invest 500 bitcoins (approximately Rs 174 crore) in an endowment to fund Bitcoin development with a focus on India and Africa in the beginning, Dorsey said on Friday.
Dorsey broke his silence since the company's major decision in a series of tweets on Wednesday.
The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are facing a grilling by Republican senators making unfounded allegations that the tech giants show anti-conservative bias.
The Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) on Friday announced that Twitter CEO Dorsey and Facebook CEO Zuckerberg will appear voluntarily before the committee on November 17
In what can be called the biggest Twitter attack, accounts of many famous personalities like Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and others have been hacked. Reacting to the same, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that it is a tough day for them and they are trying to know what exactly happened.
A day after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey slammed Donald Trump, the US President on Friday signed an executive order challenging lawsuit protections that have served as a bedrock for the unrestricted speech on the internet.
A day after US President Donald slammed Twitter for tagging his tweets under 'fact check', CEO of the microblogging site Jack Dorsey on Thursday hits back and said 'we will continue to point out incorrect facts' about polls. Dorsey appealed to Trump "leave our employees out of this" as the face-off is likely to escalate.
Popstar Rihanna, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and rapper Jay-Z have announced that they will be donating USD 6.2 million towards coronavirus relief efforts.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey makes a generous contribution to the Coronavirus global relief fund
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday announced to set aside $1 billion from his equity in his financial services and mobile payment company Square to support global relief efforts towards COVID-19.
Twitter will no more carry political advertisements on its platform globally, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday. In a series of tweets, Dorsey said Twitter's stance has been that the reach of a political message should be earned and not bought.
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