USA benefits greatly from Indian talent, praises Elon Musk after Parag Agarwal appointed as new Twitter CEO

Elon Musk was replying to Stripe CEO Patrick Collison's tweet, which stated that six US tech giants now run by Indian-origin CEOs.

Elon Musk was replying to Stripe CEO Patrick Collison's tweet, which stated that six US tech giants now run by Indian-origin CEOs. Reuters Photo

Reacting to the Indian-origin Parag Agrawal's appointment as Twitter's new CEO, Tesla head Elon Musk took to micro-blogging platform Twitter and said that "USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!".

Elon Musk was replying to Stripe CEO Patrick Collison's tweet, which stated that six US tech giants now run by Indian-origin CEOs.

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"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 had said.

In a reply, SpaceX and Tesla CEO said: "USA benefits greatly from Indian talent"

USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 29, 2021

Earlier on Monday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced his departure from the company, Parag Agarwal, who was born in India, will now lead the famous micro-blogging company.

Agrawal joined Twitter in 2011 and served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) till October 2017. As CTO, he was responsible for the Company's technical strategy, leading work to improve development velocity, while advancing the state of Machine Learning across the company.

Before being appointed as the CEO, Agarwal had risen to be Twitter's first Distinguished Engineer due to his work across revenue and consumer engineering, including his impact on the re-acceleration of audience growth in 2016 and 2017.

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