After, Parag Agarwal succeeded Jack Dorsey as Twitter's new CEO; Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla recently gave a shout out to Indian talent.
Musk replied to a tweet by Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, who congratulated Parag and highlighted that six US tech giants are now run by Indian-origin CEOs.
- "Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter are run by CEOs who grew up in India. It is wonderful to watch the amazing success of Indians in the technology world; it is a good reminder of the opportunity America offers to immigrants. (Congrats, @paraga!)," Collison wrote.
- Musk responded to Collison's post by saying, "USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!"
37-year old IIT-Bombay and Stanford University alumnus, Parag Agrawal, took over as the CEO of Twitter on Monday, after its co-founder Jack Dorsey stepped down at the helm of the San Francisco-headquartered microblogging platform.
Before joining Twitter in 2011, Parag has previously worked in Microsoft, Yahoo, and AT&T labs. He is the latest Indian origin person to head a leading US-based tech company after Google's CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella, Adobe's CEO Shantanu Narayen.
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