Twitter's New CEO Parag Agarwal Income, Family, Age, Wife Biography & More

Parag Agrawal Biography in Hindi: Parag Agrawal has been working in Twitter for the last 10 years and he has been made the new CEO after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey resigned from the post of CEO late on 29 November 2021.


Who is Parag Agarwal?

Parag Agarwal, an alumnus of IIT Mumbai, was till now working as the CTO of microblogging website Twitter. But now he has been entrusted with the job of CEO of Twitter. Parag Aggarwal has been playing his partnership in the company for the last 10 years. Parag worked at Microsoft, Yahoo and AT&T Labs before joining Twitter.

Birth of Parag Agarwal

Parag Agarwal was born in Maharashtra, India. We do not have any information about his exact date of birth and year of birth, but according to the report, the year of birth could be either 1983 or 1984. Probably Parag Agarwal's present age (in 2021) will be 37 or 38 years. Currently Parag Agarwal lives in the city of San Francisco, California in the United States of America (USA). His religion is Hindu and his nationality is American. His zodiac sign is Cancer.

Parag Agarwal's family

Parag was born in a Brahmin caste. At present, we do not have the name of any of his family members.
His father works as the Chief Officer in the Indian Department of Atomic Energy and his mother is a retired schoolteacher. Parag Agarwal also has a brother and sister.
Parag Agarwal's studies

Parag Agarwal started his early education from Atomic Energy Central School No. He later graduated in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai. Thereafter, he earned a Doctor of Philosophy (P.hd) degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Career of Parag Agarwal

While studying at Stanford University, he worked on Microsoft, Yahoo! and has also worked as an intern at AT&T Labs. After graduating from Stanford, Parag Agarwal joined Twitter, where he worked as an advertising engineer. He served in that position from October 2011 to October 2017. On March 8, 2018, Twitter announced Agarwal as the CTO (chief technology officer).

After ten years of continuous working at Twitter, when Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey resigned as CEO, Parag Agarwal has been appointed as the new CEO of Twitter. He took over as the CEO of Twitter from 29 November 2021.

Parag Agarwal net worth

According to various online sources, his net worth is believed to be $1.52 million.
Parag Agarwal wedding

Parag is married. His wife's name is Vinita Agarwal. She is a general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, where she manages investments in biology firms such as pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and digital health. They have a son together, whose name is Ansh.

Some interesting things related to the life of Parag Agarwal
  • In the year 2001, Parag won the gold medal in the Physics Olympiad held in Istanbul. Parag Agarwal shifted to America in 2005.
  • Parag had secured 77 rank in the All India Joint Entrance Examination (AIEEE) in the year 2000.
  • It is said that the thesis guide Jennifer Widom Agarwal inspired K Parag to complete his education.
  • According to a report Parag Aggarwal is very expert in Mathematics.
  • Parag Agarwal is a big fan of watching cricket.
  • Bollywood singer Shreya Ghoshal is a childhood friend of Parag Agarwal.
  • Parag Aggarwal loves to travel.
  • His hobbies are reading, writing, internet surfing.
  • Parag always likes to take decisions on his own.
  • Parag Agarwal Social Media Accounts

Parag Agarwal is very active on social media sites like Twitter, Instagram and others. Parag's Twitter username is @paraga, and he has more than 208.7k followers. Similarly, his Instagram account is @paraga and he has a total of 4k followers. He is quite active on Instagram and often publishes pictures from his travels.