Twitter's new CEO Parag Agrawal, 37, joins a growing club of Indians heading global tech giants. Almost all prominent tech companies are headed by Indians, especially IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) alums and the list was widely shared on social media.
Indian CEOs won hearty applause on Twitter soon after it was revealed that Parag Agrawal, an IIT Bombay graduate, would take over after Jack Dorsey.
One of the first to put it out was Stripe CEO Patrick Collison.
Parag Agrawal joined Twitter in 2011 and was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) before this.
After studying at IIT-Bombay, he went on to complete his PhD in Computer Science at Stanford University.
Before him, the two best known Indians in the tech world were Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Mr Pichai, an IIT-Kharagpur graduate, took over as Google CEO in 2015 and became the CEO of its parent company Alphabet in 2019.
Satya Nadella studied in the Manipal Institute of Technology before going to Stanford and Wharton.
Other Indians at the helm of big tech are Arvind Krishna (IBM), Shantanu Narayen (Adobe) and Raghu Raghuram (VMWare), Twitter pointed out.