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Parag Agrawal Biography

Parag Agrawal an Indian-American technology executive and the chief executive officer (CEO) of Twitter as of November 2021. He started working as a Twitter distinguished software engineer back in 2011 and later served as the chief technology officer back in 2017. On 29th of November 2021, Jack Dorsey shared his resignation as CEO of Twitter and that Agrawal was replacing him, with immediate effect.

Parag Agrawal Age

Agrawal was born on the 21st of May, 1984, in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.

Parag Agrawal Career

Back in October 2017 Agrawal appointment was shared on Twitter as chief technology officer (CTO) after the departure of Adam Massinger. He previously served as the company back in October 2011 as a software engineer. Before joining Twitter, he held leadership positions at Microsoft Research and Yahoo! Research.

He works as a “Twitter’s technical strategy and overseeing machine learning and AI across the consumer, revenue, and science teams”. Back in December 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that he would be in charge of Project Bluesky, “an independent team of open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media that would help better control abusive and misleading information on its platform”.

Parag Agrawal Education

Agrawal enrolled and studied at Atomic Energy Central School No.4. He studied alongside classmate of singer Shreya Ghoshal. He as well earned a gold medal at the 2001 International Physics Olympiad held in Turkey. He as well got ranked 77th rank in the Joint Entrance Exam back in 2000, and earned his B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2005. He later relocated to United States and pursued his a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University.

Parag Agrawal Wife

Agrawal is married to Vineeta Agrawal a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm, and leads “investments in biology companies, including therapeutics, diagnostics, and digital health”. The duo has a son, Anaamika.

Parag Agrawal Family

Agrawal was born to a senior official in the Indian Department of Atomic Energy (father) and his mother is a retired school teacher.

Parag Agrawal Height and Weight

Agrawal stands tall at an average height and has an average body weight

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