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Who Is Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s New C.E.O.?

A longtime Twitter insider and a confidant of co-founder Jack Dorsey, Mr. Agrawal takes over as the social media company confronts various challenges.

The New York Times – by Mike Isaac, Kate Conger and Cade Metz

SAN FRANCISCO — When Jack Dorsey, then Twitter’s executive chairman, pushed the company to build out its machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities in 2014, he turned to an engineer, Parag Agrawal.

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