The $44bn takeover of Twitter has been punctuated by public clashes between two executives with wildly differing styles: brash, outspoken billionaire Elon Musk, and the social media company’s more measured and diplomatic chief, Parag Agrawal.
Musk has publicly goaded Twitter’s lesser-known leader on the social media platform and repeatedly threatened to walk away from the deal, citing concerns about its fake accounts data.
Backed into a corner less than a year into his tenure, the enigmatic Agrawal is beginning to come out fighting in front of staffers and the public, according to multiple current and former staffers who spoke with the Financial Times on condition of anonymity.