In his own email to Twitter staff, Agrawal noted that when he joined, the company had fewer than 1,000 employees. In 2017, Dorsey named him chief technology officer. New Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s reorg includes the departure of the company’s first chief design officer, who aimed to confront the social network’s ills. He worked on advertising products and the company's engineering architecture. The 37-year-old Agrawal is a computer scientist who studied at the Indian Institute of Technology and Stanford University before joining Twitter a decade ago.

But just 10 years ago he was an engineer at Twitter. He's also little known outside the company, in contrast to Dorsey, whose eccentric health habits (he told Wired Magazine in 2020 that he eats just one meal a day and tries to spend two hours a day meditating), beard length and bitcoin obsession have fueled headlines for years. Today, 37-year-old Parag Agrawal is Twitter’s CEO the youngest among the S&P 500, edging out Mark Zuckerberg. So far, two executives have stepped down as part of this restructuring: Twitter’s Chief Design Officer Dantley Davis, who joined the company in 2019, and Head of Engineering Michael Montano. Still, some current and former employees told NPR they were surprised Agrawal was tapped for the role, given that his profile inside the company is lower than others in Twitter's executive ranks.

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