Jack Dorsey announces his departure from Twitter CEO

Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey announced he was leaving the company on Monday, November 29, 2021. AFP / File

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Twitter announced on Monday the departure, with immediate effect, of its managing director and co-founder Jack Dorsey, who will be replaced by the group's technical manager, Parag Agrawal.

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" said Jack Dorsey, in a statement, which marks the end of an era.

not sure anyone has heard but,

I resigned from Twitter pic.twitter.com/G5tUkSSxkl

- jack⚡️ (@jack) November 29, 2021

Since his return to the helm of the company at the Blue Bird in October 2015, the relaxed entrepreneur has been regularly criticized for not having let go of the reins of his other company, the specialist in mobile payments Square, to be devote only to Twitter.

Become billionaire in 2013 with the IPO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey is today at the head of a fortune estimated at 11.8 billion dollars by the site of the magazine Forbes.

He had made a first stint as general manager of Twitter between 2007 and 2008, finally ousted by the board of directors, dissatisfied with his management.

The market reacted favorably to the information, the title Twitter taking 4.16% in the first exchanges on Wall Street.

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