Elon Musk Hails Indian Talent Shining In USA, In Reaction To New Twitter CEO
Twitter has a new Indian-origin CEO Parag Agrawal. Indians all over the world including back home in India are feeling a shared sense of pride that yet another big tech company has an Indian chief executive at its helm. Adding to the accolades and sense of celebration is a tweet by none other than Elon Musk believe it or not.
In case you missed the news, Twitter has a new Indian-origin CEO, Parag Agrawal. Which obviously means Indians all over the world, including back home in India, are feeling a shared sense of pride that yet another big tech company has an 'Indian' chief executive at its helm.
And adding to the accolades and sense of celebration is a tweet by none other than Elon Musk, believe it or not!
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Yes, the Tesla CEO took to Twitter to hail Indian ingenuity contributing towards the success of American enterprise in his own quintessential fashion.
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Elon Musk responded to the original tweet posted by Stripe CEO, Patrick Collison, who was noting how companies like Google, IBM, Microsoft and now Twitter now have CEOs who grew up in India.
Elon Musk simply said that "USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!" in response to Collison's original congratulatory tweet.
USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!
¡ª Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 29, 2021
This rare shout out to Indian talent in USA from Elon Musk is certainly causing a bit of an outpouring of 'engagements' as one Twitter user (Pratyush Prabhakar) envisaged in response.
Elon Musk's tweet hailing Indian talent in the US has till now received over 100,000 likes and about 20,000 retweets in just over 20 hours.
Parag Agrawal, CEO, Twitter
The new Twitter CEO causing such a stir has amazing credentials to justify his new role at the company. Parag Agrawal studied at IIT-Bombay after which he attended Stanford University to get a PhD in computer science. In 2011, he joined Twitter as a distinguished software engineer, moving up the ladder quickly to take over CTO duties in 2017.
Agrawal takes over Twitter at a time when the company's trying to monetize and grow its business more aggressively. The kudos from Elon Musk should definitely boost his confidence in the new role, no?
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