Elon Musk has finally found a CEO for Twitter. Interestingly, Twitter’s new CEO is not a human but a dog. He is Musk’s pet dog, Floki, a Shiba Inu. The new Twitter head feels his dog Floki makes a better CEO than the “other guy” Parag Agrawal. Notably, Musk fired Agarwal as soon as he took over the company in a $44 billion dollar deal. Along with Agrawal, Twitter’s legal head Vijaya Gadde and CFO Nel Segal were also pink-slipped.
Musk shared the picture of his Shiba Inu dog, Floki sitting on the CEO’s chair. In the picture, Floki is seen wearing Twitter branded black T-shirt with CEO written on it. He also has a couple of documents lying in front of him at the table with his paw prints. There is a small laptop with a Twitter logo kept in front of Floki, just in case he wants to shoot an urgent email. Sharting the picture, Musk wrote, “The new CEO of Twitter is amazing”. In another tweet, he added that the new CEO of Twitter is much better than the “other” guy. He is referring to the former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.
Musk had also exchanged a couple of chats with Agrawal and there clearly wasn't any bonhomie even when the acquisition process had not begun. In one of his texts to Agrawal, Musk had called joining the Twitter board a "waste of time". "What did you get done this week... I'm not joining the board. This is a waste of time. Will make an offer to take Twitter private," his text to Agrawal read.
Musk had even written messages to former Twitter chief Jack Dorsey about his discussions with Agrawal. The leaked chats reveal that Dorsey had tried to get Musk and Agrawal together but things didn't happen as he planned. He said: "You and I are in complete agreement... Parag is just moving far too slowly and trying to please people who will not be happy no matter what he does." To this Dorsey replied, "At least it became clear that you can't work together."
Agrawal was promoted as the CEO of Twitter in November last year when former CEO Jack Dorsey stepped down from his role. His total compensation for 2021 was $30.4 million, which was paid to him in stock awards. With Agrawal’s termination, his decade-long association with the company also ended. He had joined Twitter when it was at a nascent stage with less than 1000 employees at the helm.
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