Elon Musk fired him as Twitter CEO; IIT Bombay alumnus built a $2B AI startup

IIT Bombay alumnus Parag Agrawal has built an AI startup valued at around $2 billion, two years after stepping down as Twitter CEO following Elon Musk's acquisition of the company. Agrawal, who secured AIR 77 in JEE, studied Computer Science at IIT Bombay before earning a PhD from Stanford University. After leading Twitter as CEO, he founded Parallel Web Systems in 2023, focusing on AI infrastructure and large-scale computing technologies.

By SANJAY SHARMA