Huge Applause For Indians After Parag Agrawal Named Twitter CEO

Parag Agrawal (37), the new CEO of Twitter, joins a growing club of Indians heading global tech giants. Almost all leading tech companies are headed by Indians.

The Indian CEOs won hearty applause on the microblogging site soon after it was known that Parag Agrawal, who is an IIT Bombay graduate, would take over after Jack Dorsey.

The first one to put it out was Stripe CEO Patrick Collison. “Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India. Wonderful to watch the amazing success of Indians in the technology world and a good reminder of the opportunity America offers to immigrants. (Congrats, @paraga!),” He tweeted.

To which Tesla CEO Elon Musk reacted, saying: “USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!” 

Industrialist Anand Mahindra also replied to the tweet phrasing it as “Indian CEO virus, adding,”This is one pandemic that we are happy & proud to say originated in India. It’s the Indian CEO Virus… No vaccine against it.”

Calling it a great moment for India’s “depth of talent”, Gautam Adani noted the rise of yet another Indian in the digital world.

Mr Adani also shared Agrawal’s first email to Twitter employees after becoming CEO.

Indian origin Parag Agrawal, who joined Twitter in 2011 was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) before this.

After studying at IIT-Bombay, he pursued his PhD in Computer Science at Stanford University.

Before Agrawal, the two best known Indians in the tech world were Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

Other Indians ruling prominent tech companies are IBM’s Arvind Krishna, Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen and Raghu Raghuram of VMWare. Twitter pointed out.

Flash memory storage company SanDisk and security firm Palo Alto Networks are also headed by Indians. Nikesh Arora is the CEO of Palo Alto Networks.

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