Elon Musk fired top Twitter execs including CEO, reports say • TechCrunch

The deal is completed, in accordance to many resources, which is what gave Musk the mandate to clean property between the government ranks. The Tesla CEO experienced beforehand criticized Gadde on his Twitter account, due to the fact she was involved in the selection to ban former President Donald Trump from the system. He has also tangled with Agrawal. Publicly, Musk tweeted poop emojis at the CEO, who took about for founder Jack Dorsey late final 12 months. It was not substantially better in private, possibly. The two exchanged text messages that indicated a slipping out, as disclosed by chat logs disclosed in discovery in the lawful battle among the billionaire and the social network.

Musk was rumored to say that he desires to slash 75% of Twitter’s team, however he then backtracked that statement — continue to, gutting 4 execs on a Thursday night isn’t reassuring to the remaining Twitter staff. Even Twitter co-founder Biz Stone dealt with the shake-up.

 

Twitter has currently had pretty the shuffling of government personnel considering that Agrawal took in excess of for Dorsey. In advance of serving as CEO, Agrawal was the company’s CTO — he to start with begun at Twitter in 2011. But within a several months, two executives stepped down as part of Agrawal’s restructuring: Twitter’s Main Structure Officer Dantley Davis, who joined the firm in 2019, and Head of Engineering Michael Montano, who joined in 2011. Shortly after, Twitter missing two much more leaders, main info safety officer, Rinki Sethi, and head of Safety, Peiter Zatko (Mudge). In May well, Twitter GM of Client, Keyvon Beykpour, announced he would be leaving the enterprise after 7 yrs following Agrawal asked him to stage down. At the identical time, Bruce Falck, Twitter’s earnings solution guide, also still left the firm.

Twitter’s leadership is by now going to glance a large amount distinct under Musk’s management, and this is only the pretty beginning.

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