Twitter Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B), will take over from Jack Dorsey as the CEO of Twitter in 2022. Dorsey had announced his resignation in a surprise tweet on Monday evening. Reacting to the Indian-American Parag Agrawal’s appointment as Twitter’s new CEO, Tesla chief Elon Musk has said that “USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!”. Elon Musk was replying to Stripe CEO Patrick Collison’s tweet, which stated that six US tech giants are now run by Indian-origin CEOs. As congratulations pour in for the young CEO, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to Twitter to give a shout out to Indian talent in the US, recognizing the contribution of Indian immigrants to the field of technology.
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Soon after acknowledging the contribution of “Indian talent” to the US technology sector, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has shared a photoshopped meme on Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal. The meme shows Mr. Agrawal’s face photoshopped onto former USSR dictator Joseph Stalin’s body, in what some see as a criticism of the Indian-origin techie’s past comments about free speech on the social media platform. The image also shows Mr. Agrawal’s predecessor Jack Dorsey standing beside him in the first image. The pic depicts Jack Dorsey in the role of Nikolay Yezhov, a close Stalin associate who was later assassinated under his orders. In the second pic shared by Elon Musk, we see a splash in the river as Mr. Dorsey goes missing. “Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India. Wonderful to watch the amazing success of Indians in the technology world and a good reminder of the opportunity America offers to immigrants. (Congrats, Parag Agrawal),” by Stripe CEO Patrick Collison wrote. Musk then tweeted.
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