In the latest sign of unrest on Twitter amid the anticipation of Elon Musk purchase of the companythe company has fired two senior executives.
Twitter CEO Kayvon Beykpour is leaving after seven years.
In a series of tweets on Thursday, Beykpour said CEO Parag Agrawal “asked me to leave after letting me know he wants to take the team in another direction.”
Interrupt my paternity leave to share some end @twitter-related news: I leave the company after more than 7 years.
– Kayvon Beykpour (@kayvz) May 12, 2022
The truth is that this is not the case even when I imagined leaving Twitter, and that was not my decision. Parag asked me to leave after letting me know that he wants to take the team in another direction.
– Kayvon Beykpour (@kayvz) May 12, 2022
Bruce Falck, head of revenue and Twitter products, was also fired, according to a tweet that has since been removed. His Twitter biography now says “stopped.”
“I dedicate this tweet to these engineers and thank you ALL for the opportunity to serve by your side. It’s been great. There’s so much more to do, so get back to work, I can’t wait to see what you do,” Falck said. he tweeted.
Twitter confirmed the two departures and said the company is pausing most of the hiring, except for the critical roles for the company.
“We are removing non-labor costs to ensure we are responsible and efficient,” the company said in a statement.
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Beykpour was Twitter’s chief consumer officer, leading design, research, product, engineering and customer service and operations teams, according to his Twitter biography. Beykpour, co-founder of the Periscope live streaming app, joined Twitter when the social media company bought his startup in 2015. Twitter he pulled out the plug to the application in 2020.
“I hope and hope that the best days of Twitter are still ahead. Twitter is one of the most important, unique and impactful products in the world. With the right education and management, that impact will only increase,” he said on Twitter.
Beykpour did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, reached an agreement last month to buy Twitter for $ 44 billion, with the intention of making it private. The purchase is expected to close sometime this year if shareholders, as well as regulators in the U.S. and other countries where Twitter does business, approve it.
The purchase has caused a stir among Twitter workers, many of whom have interpreted Musk’s vow to release “free speech” on the platform as meaning that it would allow abuse and harassment to spread to the Internet. platform. Twitter said in a stock presentation that it anticipated staff departures before the merger closed.
For his part, Musk has told fellow investors that he is considering layoffs as a way to cut costs for the company, Bloomberg News reported.
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