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Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) [3] is an American businessperson, who is a co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Inc. from 2015 until 2021, as well as co-founder, principal executive officer and chairman of Block, Inc. (developer of the Square financial services platform).
In the afternoon of October 27, Musk and Twitter closed the deal, with Musk tweeting "the bird is freed". Musk immediately became Twitter's new owner, summarily firing Agrawal, chief financial officer (CFO) Ned Segal, Gadde, and general counsel Sean Edgett, [171] [172] [173] with the executives escorted out of the company's headquarters by ...
The deal was closed on October 28, with Musk immediately becoming Twitter's new owner and CEO. Twitter was taken private and merged into a new parent company named X Corp. Musk promptly fired several top executives, including previous CEO Parag Agrawal. Musk has since proposed several reforms to Twitter and laid off half of the company's ...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's $44 billion purchase of Twitter has been followed by a series of chaotic events for the social media platform, including the workforce being slashed by 80% and the ...
X, formerly known as Twitter, has hit a rough patch ever since the outspoken CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, bought it for $44 billion in October 2022. While now a private company, the estimated ...
Three days before Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter, the world's richest man tweeted a photo of Bill Gates and used a crude term to make fun of his belly. Playful, aggressive and often juvenile ...
Twitter raises money, gets celebrity endorsements and publicity, and continues to grow rapidly. The first tweet from space occurs during this period. Twitter also announces that it will start allowing for advertising in the form of promoted tweets – "ordinary tweets that businesses and individuals want to highlight to a wider group of users."
Musk was appointed to Twitter's board on April 9, under a deal that prohibited him from acquiring more than 14.9% of the company. [52] [55] [56] Musk made an unsolicited offer on April 14 to acquire Twitter for $44 billion and take the company private. [57]