Elon Musk fired top Twitter execs including CEO, reports say • TechCrunch

The deal is carried out, in accordance to multiple sources, which is what gave Musk the mandate to thoroughly clean home between the government ranks. The Tesla CEO had formerly criticized Gadde on his Twitter account, considering that she was associated in the selection to ban former President Donald Trump from the platform. He has also tangled with Agrawal. Publicly, Musk tweeted poop emojis at the CEO, who took over for founder Jack Dorsey late previous 12 months. It wasn’t a great deal superior in personal, possibly. The two exchanged textual content messages that indicated a falling out, as uncovered by chat logs disclosed in discovery in the authorized battle concerning the billionaire and the social network.

Musk was rumored to say that he wants to reduce 75% of Twitter’s staff members, even though he then backtracked that statement — however, gutting 4 execs on a Thursday night is not reassuring to the remaining Twitter workforce. Even Twitter co-founder Biz Stone tackled the shake-up.

Twitter has presently had pretty the shuffling of government team since Agrawal took over for Dorsey. In advance of serving as CEO, Agrawal was the company’s CTO — he 1st started out at Twitter in 2011. But inside of a few months, two executives stepped down as part of Agrawal’s restructuring: Twitter’s Main Structure Officer Dantley Davis, who joined the business in 2019, and Head of Engineering Michael Montano, who joined in 2011. Shortly after, Twitter missing two additional leaders, chief details protection officer, Rinki Sethi, and head of Protection, Peiter Zatko (Mudge). In May possibly, Twitter GM of Customer, Keyvon Beykpour, announced he would be leaving the corporation right after 7 yrs following Agrawal requested him to stage down. At the same time, Bruce Falck, Twitter’s revenue merchandise direct, also remaining the firm.

Twitter’s leadership is by now going to look a ton different beneath Musk’s command, and this is only the really beginning.