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title: "What Elon Musk Has To Say About Indian Talent After Parag Agrawal Becomes Twitter CEO"  
description: "37-years-old Parag Agrawal is among the youngest big tech CEOs and is of the same age as Mark Zuckerberg."  
author: "Vallabha Buddepu"  
published: 2021-11-30  
updated: 2021-11-30  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/news/966/what-elon-musk-has-to-say-about-indian-talent-after-parag-agrawal-becomes-twitter-ceo  
category: "twitter"  
tags: ["twitter", "technology", "technology news", "tech magazines"]  
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# What Elon Musk Has To Say About Indian Talent After Parag Agrawal Becomes Twitter CEO

[Parag Agrawal](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84099/elon-musk-fired-twitter-execs-including-ceo-parag-agrawal-and-many-more) is just the most latest Indian CEO to join the list of prominent IT CEOs. Since Twitter's previous CEO, [Jack Dorsey](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/100054/why-does-jack-dorsey-think-india-has-killed-its-democracy), withdrew, Agrawal was named the company's new CEO. Parag is one of the youngest big IT CEOs, at 37 years old, and is the same age as [Mark Zuckerberg](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/85512/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-two-business-tycoon-of-similar-age).

Agrawal graduated from the Indian [Institute of Technology](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43822/what-is-the-placement-and-internship-scenario-at-ms-ramaiah-institute-of-technology-bengaluru), Bombay, with a bachelor's degree in [computer science](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/112634/what-are-the-benefits-of-teaching-coding-and-computer-science-in-schools) and engineering. IITs around India have produced a large number of global [tech](https://www.mindstick.com/services/technologies) leaders, including [Sundar Pichai](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84708/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-fires-over-400-employees-in-india), the CEO of Alphabet and Google, who graduated from IIT Kharagpur.

Big [tech companies](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/44167/top-10-tech-companies-to-work-for-in-india) including Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, IBM, and Adobe have Indian CEOs. 'USA gains enormously from Indian brilliance!' Elon Musk said in response to a tweet by Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, recognizing the contribution of Indian immigrants to the field of technology.

'Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter are all run by CEOs who grew up in India,' Collison remarked. It's inspiring to see Indians achieve incredible success in the technological industry, and it serves as a nice reminder of the opportunities that America provides to immigrants

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'The United [States of America](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42839/why-do-we-say-united-states-of-america-instead-of-united-states) tremendously benefits from Indian talent!' Musk swiftly responded

Agrawal earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University after graduating from IIT Bombay. After completing his degree, Parag [worked as](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/86510/henry-kissinger-passes-away-at-100-worked-as-a-us-secretary) a leader at Microsoft Research and Yahoo Research. He joined Twitter in October 2011 and was promoted to CTO of the firm in October 2018

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