Indian Parag Agrawal succeeds Jack Dorsey as Twitter boss
Parag Agrawal will succeed Jack Dorsey at the head of the social network Twitter.
AP - Ellian Raffoul
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The CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, announced his resignation on Monday evening, November 29, and it is thus his right-hand man, Parag Agrawal, who will take the reins of the social network.
After Google and Microsoft, it is therefore another Indian who heads one of the flagships of the American new technology industry.
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With our correspondent in New Delhi,
Sébastien Farcis
37-year-old Parag Agrawal has the typical profile of successful Indians in Silicon Valley.
He comes from an educated middle-class family, received his first engineering degree from the Bombay Institute of Technology, one of India's most selective public schools, before completing his doctorate at Stanford University. , in the USA.
He is therefore, like the directors of Google-Alphabet and Microsoft, a first generation immigrant, who succeeded through enormous effort and quality education.
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Democratic world
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The main reason for the success of the Indians is their education, which is of quality and in English, which allows them to adapt and to be accepted in the whole world, especially compared to the Chinese,
analyzes Binod Khadria, president of the research forum on the diaspora and transnationalism.
They also grew up in a democratic world, similar to that of the United States.
Finally, it should be noted that these Indians no longer come only from the elite, thanks to the system of positive discrimination established in the great Indian schools, which benefits the working classes
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Reduce tensions with the Indian government
The arrival of an Indian at the head of Twitter could help reduce tensions between the company and the Indian government, around the rules of moderation of the content of the network.
►Also read: Jack Dorsey announces his departure from the general management of Twitter
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