Elon Musk’s first order of business after taking over Twitter is to push out its CEO and his lieutenants

Also leaving are Vijaya Gadde, the head of lawful, coverage and have faith in Main Monetary Officer Ned Segal, who joined Twitter in 2017 and Sean Edgett, who has been basic counsel at Twitter considering that 2012, according to people acquainted with the issue, who declined to be named simply because the facts is not community. 

Twitter did not quickly respond to a request for comment.

Agrawal stepped into the CEO part in November, when co-founder Jack Dorsey unexpectedly resigned. Agrawal had been at Twitter for just about a ten years, most not too long ago as main technological know-how officer, but his operate as CEO was quickly disrupted by Musk’s arrival as a important shareholder and increasingly vocal antagonist of its latest management.

Right after Musk confirmed up, it grew to become obvious that Agrawal was not likely to preserve his job. “I do not have self-confidence in management,” Musk claimed in one early submitting about the offer, and the two executives exchanged some general public swipes. In Could, Musk replied to a Twitter thread from Agrawal defending the company’s person metrics by tweeting again a poop emoji.

Text messages unveiled throughout the lawsuit show that the two men experienced a contentious trade early on all through the deal approach after Musk asked his followers whether Twitter was “dying.” 

Agrawal confronted him by way of text. “You are cost-free to tweet ‘is twitter dying?’ or something else about Twitter,” he wrote on April 9, “but it’s my accountability to tell you that it is not helping me make Twitter superior in the existing context.” Musk fired again, “What did you get finished this week?” And then: “I’m not becoming a member of the board this is a waste of time.”

The pursuing week, in messages with a friend, Musk mocked Agrawal for getting on family vacation in Hawaii all through offer negotiations. “Shouldn’t he be in a war area proper now?!?” investor Jason Calacanis messaged Musk. “Does carrying out occasional zoom phone calls when consuming fruity cocktails at the Four Seasons depend?” Musk replied.

Endeavours by previous Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to reconcile Musk, a longtime Dorsey good friend, and Agrawal immediately after the offer was introduced also ended inadequately. “At the very least it turned distinct that you can not do the job jointly,” Dorsey messaged Musk immediately after a team contact. “That was clarifying.”

Agrawal will not be leaving vacant handed. As portion of the offer, the CEO will vest 100% of his unvested equity awards, in accordance to a submitting. Exploration business Equilar estimated that usually means he’ll make an believed $42 million, Reuters noted.

As Twitter’s head of authorized and policy concerns, Gadde has overseen the generation and enforcement of principles for hundreds of millions of internet end users, like notable ones that are matter to looser articles limits below the company’s exemptions for newsworthy posts or environment leaders’ communications. In buying Twitter, Musk has promised to flip it into a less-restrictive system for free speech, a shift he has reported is “essential to a working democracy.” 

Gadde was hit with a spate of online abuse earlier this yr right after Musk publicly criticized written content-relevant selections at Twitter. The corporation completely banned former US president Donald Trump in January 2021 subsequent his supporters’ assault on the Capitol. Musk’s statements primary up to his invest in of the social-media organization have led a lot of to expect the billionaire will restore Trump’s account and reinstate other people who have been blocked for breaking procedures on offensive or harmful content material.

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