‘He’s making an attempt to please folks’: What made Elon Musk hearth Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal

The largest and what’s touted to be the messiest deal of our occasions, the Twitter-Musk deal, is in its remaining episode. The deal has reportedly been closed and the world’s richest man now owns Twitter. Nevertheless, no official affirmation is out on it but. 

The reviews of the deal closing additionally say that Twitter’s high brass, together with its Indian-origin CEO Parag Agrawal, have been sacked by the incoming proprietor.

Elon Musk and Parag Agrawal began off nice, nevertheless, their relationship went south dramatically because the deal talks progressed.

A collection of texts that have been disclosed at Delaware courtroom revealed that the 2 have been cordial and excited to start out working with one another, bonding over ‘engineering’ and their liking for the microblogging website, the BBC reported.

Because the months glided by and Musk began along with his due diligence in Twitter’s spam/bot accounts and voiced them unabashedly on Twitter, the duo began falling aside. Actually it was a tweet from Musk that didn’t go effectively with Agrawal. 

Musk on April 9 requested on his Twitter if the social media website was dying as “most of its high accounts hardly ever tweet.” 

Earlier than this tweet, Musk and Agrawal appeared to bond effectively. Actually, in March when it grew to become clear that Musk intends to purchase Twitter shares, Agrawal texted him saying that he would love to talk. Ultimately, by March 31, the 2 met for a dinner in San Jose at an Airbnb close to a farmyard. 

Musk described the dinner as, “wins for the weirdest place I’ve had a gathering not too long ago”. Agrawal too, thought it was “memorable.”

On April 5, the choice to nominate Musk on board was made and introduced.  Musk replied to Agrawal’s tweet saying how he was excited to work with Twitter and Agrawal, to make important enhancements. 

Then got here the April 9 tweet on the “hottest accounts” and if Twitter was “dying” that led to the downfall of this brimming bond between the 2 engineers.

On April 11, Agrawal took Twitter to announce that Musk has determined to not be a part of the board.

Simply three days after this, Twitter in an SEC submitting, revealed Musk’s provide to purchase the corporate for $44 billion. Nevertheless, there have been murmurs Twitter would resist the takeover.  

In between, a mutual pal tried to come back to the rescue. Jack Dorsey, former Twitter high boss, tried to patch up the connection between Musk and Agrawal however did not succeed. 

The subsequent day, Jack Dorsey made one other try to patch up the connection between the 2. He organised a name however it did not go effectively, the BBC reported. 

Musk then texted Dorsey saying, “Parag is simply shifting far too slowly and making an attempt to please individuals who won’t be pleased it doesn’t matter what he does.”

Dorsey replied: “At the least it grew to become clear you can’t work collectively,” the BBC reported.

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