Agrawal

Pre-owned e-commerce platform Cars24 recently saw some high-profile exits, including its global CTO Jitendra Agrawal and business head Kingshuk Sanyal who have left the company to pursue other things.In a LinkedIn post, Agrawal who joined the company in July 2021, said he will be moving on from Cars24 in the next few months."I joined Cars24 with a specific goal to help the team scale multiple countries at once - a particularly challenging task because, as an eCommerce company with complex execution, we built each country…

San Francisco, Agarwal Ned Segal before pulling out of the $44 billion acquisition deal.Musk texted the Twitter executives that the company's lawyers were trying to "cause trouble" after they requested information about the status of Musk's financing for a deal to buy Twitter, according to a lawsuit filed in Delaware, reports Business Insider."Your lawyers are using these conversations to cause trouble. That needs to stop, "Musk was quoted as saying in a text to CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal on June 28."Recently,…

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal told employees on Monday that the future of the social media firm is uncertain after the deal to be taken private under billionaire Elon Musk closes. He was speaking during a company-wide town hall meeting that was heard by Reuters.Musk will join Twitter staff for a question-and-answer session at a later date, the company told employees.As Agrawal listened to staff questions about Musk's plans for the company, the possibility of layoffs and the board's rationale for the deal, he deferred many…

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal would get an estimated $42 million (roughly Rs. 320 crore) if he were terminated within 12 months of a change in control at the social media company, according to research firm Equilar.On Monday billionaire Elon Musk struck a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,36,400 crore), ending its run as a public company since 2013.Musk in a securities filing on April 14 had said he did not have confidence in Twitter's management.Equilar's estimate includes a year's worth of Agrawal's base…

New Delhi, Micro-blogging platform Twitter has laid off 30 per cent employees from its talent acquisition team amid the $44 billion takeover by Elon Musk, the media reported on Friday.A Twitter spokesperson confirmed these layoffs to TechCrunch, without divulging further details or the number of employees affected.The sacked employees will receive severance packages and the company will "reprioritise' remaining recruitment staff.Twitter had earlier announced to halt most hiring across divisions.As Twitter paused hiring,…

Decrypting probability questions in data science interviews with stylephoto on unsplash.com by @briansumanQuestions on probability are very common in any Data Science interview. The questions might be challenging (and tricky) but are easily tractable if you have some practice and know basic formulas and concepts. In this blog, I share some practice questions (with solutions) on different concepts in probability.Keywords: Probability, Binomial distribution, Bayes theoremThe blog assumes the reader knows basic probability…

Twitter's chief on Monday defended the messaging platform's battle against "bots" that aspiring buyer Elon Musk says vex the platform, only to have the billionaire respond with a poo emoji.The exchange played out in tweets as Musk's $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,41,910 crore) buy of Twitter remained "temporarily on hold," pending questions over the social media company's estimates of the number of fake accounts, or "bots.""It appears the spam/bot issue is cascading and clearly making the Twitter deal a confusing one,"…

Elon Musk has added extra spice to the Twitter buyout saga, with the billionaire again commenting on his concerns regarding the number of spam accounts on the social media site before claiming that he could lessen his $44 billion offer.Twitter had previously claimed that fake or spam accounts made up fewer than 5% of its monetisable daily active users during the first quarter -- an estimate…

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on Saturday said that the deal with Elon Musk is expected to be closed, however, the deal does not become an excuse to avoid making important decisions for the health of the company, adding that Twitter needs to be prepared for all scenarios and always do what's right for it.This is a significant update as Elon Musk earlier declared that the $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,40,800 crore) takeover bid of the micro-blogging site is on hold.Agrawal said that though some have been asking why a "lame-duck"…

Twitter's biggest shareholder, Elon Musk, has decided not to join its board, Chief Executive Parag Agrawal said late on Sunday.Musk, who calls himself a free-speech absolutist and has been critical of Twitter, disclosed a 9.1 percent stake on April 4 and said he plans to bring about significant improvements at the social media platform.His appointment to the board was to become effective on Saturday and would have prevented him from being a beneficial owner of more than 14.9 percent of common stock.But "Elon shared that…