The Indian engineer was chosen in November 2021 by network founder Jack Dorsey to succeed him. Sacked by Elon Musk, he forced the billionaire to overpay the social network.
Thursday evening in San Francisco, Parag Agrawal crossed the threshold of the offices of the social network Twitter for the last time. A few minutes earlier, the 38-year-old engineer was removed from his position as general manager by Elon Musk, the company’s new owner. He remained in office for less than a year.
Parag Agrawal does not leave empty-handed. The ex-boss of Twitter had negotiated in April a golden parachute in the event that the multi-billionaire were to dismiss him within twelve months of taking over the company. This tidy departure bonus would amount to 40 million dollars. It is one of the illustrations of the tussle that the engineer waged for six months against the richest man in the world. It will have led Elon Musk to buy “too expensive“, as he himself acknowledged, the social network.
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This thirty-year-old had surely not considered that his time at the top of Twitter would be both so short and so intense. His name appears in the press on November 29…
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