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Jack Dorsey resigns as CEO of Twitter
CBC | | Nov 29, 2021
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey will step down as the company's chief executive officer.
Dorsey is also CEO of payment firm Square
The billionaire CEO announced in a tweet that he is stepping down, to be replaced by Parag Agrawal, who is the company's chief technical officer.
Among other duties, Agrawal is developing standards to control abusive and misleading information.
"I want you all to know that this is my decision and I own it," Dorsey said, adding that Agrawal "has been my choice for some time, given how deeply he understands the company and its needs."
Dorsey co-founded the microblogging site in 2006 and became CEO the next year. But, two years later he was pushed out as chief executive by two other co-founders, Ev Williams and board member Fred Wilson.
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After years of stagnant growth and a slumping share price since its IPO in 2013, Dorsey returned as CEO in 2015.
At the time, Dorsey was also CEO of Square, a payments processing company that he founded after he left Twitter. But instead of leaving Square, he took the unusual step of continuing to be CEO of both companies. Powerful investors in both companies didn't like that arrangement from the start, and in recent months many have started openly calling for it to end.
Since Square went public in 2015, its shares have gone up by more than 2,300 per cent. Twitter, meanwhile, has not even doubled over that period.
Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh says the move is a good one for the company which has fallen far behind other social media companies like Facebook, Snap and TikTok financially, at a time when demand for such services keeps rising.
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"Jack Dorsey's exit as CEO is a good strategic move that could help Twitter speed user growth and expand advertisers beyond large brands," Singh said in a note to clients. "Given greater exposure to live sports and entertainment than other social-media platforms, we believe Twitter may seek deals and focus on partnerships to improve its … positioning."
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