“When taking pollen JEE In the exam, he completed all the questions he knew in the first 40 minutes and went on to ask for the additional supplement. But the inspector said that there was no concept of giving additional supplement. He came back to his seat and read the instructions, which read, ‘Band everyone up’. supplies in the right order ‘. He went back to the inspector and told him that he should order the supplement. He came out and was quite upset that he lost his precious time on this,” says Praveen Tyagi, a teacher who coached him for IIT-JEE in 2000.
Parag Agarwal with teammates in Istanbul after 3 (including Parag) won gold medals at the 2001 Physics Olympiad
Agarwal secured 77th rank in the IIT Joint Entrance Examination and joined the Department of Computer Science at IIT-Bombay. Professor Supratim BiswasThe former head of computer science and engineering at IIT-B remembered him as a fine student. “He took two courses with me and, if I remember correctly, he graduated as a department topper,” he told TOI.
Not much is known about Agarwal as he left for Stanford after graduating from IIT-B and completed his doctorate in computer science from Stanford University. Agarwal, whose mother was a school teacher and father was into nuclear power, is now in his early forties.
Satya Nadella and after Sundar Pichai Going to head Microsoft and Google in the first decade of the new millennium, Agarwal has received one of the most high-profile (and often, high-pressure) roles after Dorsey announced his departure from the micro-blogging platform, naming him Successor.
together again: Playback singer Shreya Ghoshal (second from left) with her nuclear energy school classmate Parag Agarwal (far right)
Agarwal – a former researcher at Microsoft, Yahoo and AT&T Labs – joined Twitter in October 2011 as a software engineer, and was appointed chief technology officer in October of 2017, according to his profile on the networking site LinkedIn. Was. In his appointment, which resulted in a spurt in Twitter’s shares, Agarwal stamped the dominance of Indians in the fast-paced and high-profile world of Big Tech, which in recent years has sparked many controversies such as social media and the Internet. is confused. Companies have come to defy public perception and online approaches to the trouble of governments and regulators around the world.
Parag, the much-acclaimed but controversial founder of Twitter, was Dorsey’s “first choice”, calling him someone who “deeply understands the company and its needs”. Not much is known about Parag and his personal life except that he passed out from Atomic Energy Central School in Mumbai. He is married to Vinita Agarwal, a venture capital investor whose Twitter profile describes him as a physician and assistant clinical professor at Stanford Medicine. The couple has a young son named Ansh, who also has a Twitter handle.
Agarwal earned a bachelor’s degree in biophysics from Stanford University, and then an MD and PhD from Harvard Medical School/MIT. She is currently a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she leads investments for the firm’s Bio Fund in medical science, diagnostics and digital health.
In his response after being named to the top post on Twitter, Parag thanked Dorsey for his “advice and friendship”. “I know some of you know me well, some just a little, and some not at all. Let’s consider ourselves at the beginning – the first step towards our future. I’m sure you have a lot of questions.” , and we have a lot to discuss. Overall tomorrow, we’ll have plenty of time for Q&A and discussion. This will be the start of an ongoing open, direct conversation that I want us to have together.”
Deep gratitude to @Jack and our entire team, and so much enthusiasm for the future. Here is the note I wrote… https://t.co/1OzUfLC5KY . sent on
— Parag Agarwal (@paraga) 1638201579000
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