The deal is completed, in keeping with a number of sources, which is what gave Musk the mandate to scrub home among the many govt ranks. The Tesla CEO had previously criticized Gadde on his Twitter account, since she was concerned within the determination to ban former President Donald Trump from the platform. He has additionally tangled with Agrawal. Publicly, Musk tweeted poop emojis on the CEO, who took over for founder Jack Dorsey late final 12 months. It wasn’t significantly better in personal, both. The 2 exchanged textual content messages that indicated a falling out, as revealed by chat logs disclosed in discovery within the authorized battle between the billionaire and the social community.
Musk was rumored to say that he desires to chop 75% of Twitter’s employees, although he then backtracked that assertion — nonetheless, gutting 4 execs on a Thursday evening isn’t reassuring to the remaining Twitter staff. Even Twitter co-founder Biz Stone addressed the shake-up.
Twitter has already had fairly the shuffling of govt employees since Agrawal took over for Dorsey. Earlier than serving as CEO, Agrawal was the corporate’s CTO — he first began at Twitter in 2011. However inside a couple of weeks, two executives stepped down as a part of Agrawal’s restructuring: Twitter’s Chief Design Officer Dantley Davis, who joined the corporate in 2019, and Head of Engineering Michael Montano, who joined in 2011. Shortly after, Twitter lost two more leaders, chief info safety officer, Rinki Sethi, and head of Safety, Peiter Zatko (Mudge). In Might, Twitter GM of Client, Keyvon Beykpour, announced he can be leaving the corporate after seven years after Agrawal requested him to step down. On the identical time, Bruce Falck, Twitter’s income product lead, additionally left the corporate.
Twitter’s management is already going to look loads totally different underneath Musk’s management, and that is solely the very starting.