We have noted from time to time in these pages the ongoing takeover of American business, particularly in the high-tech industry, by Indians and Indian-Americans. For example, last November we listed the following Indian CEOs of American corporations:
Sundar Pichai, Google CEO; Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO of Microsoft; Shantanu Narayen, Adobe CEO; Ajaypal Singh Banga, MasterCard CEO; Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron CEO; Jayshree Ullal, Arista Networks CEO; and Arvind Krishna, IBM CEO
Even old Awkward Joe Biden noted the phenomenon, in his usual cringeworthy way, by observing in March, “Indian-of-descent Americans [sic] are taking over the country.” That was in reference to Swati Mohan, one of the leaders of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission and a native of Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, in addition to, as Biden said, “my vice president [and] my speechwriter Vinay [Reddy].”
Well, as the takeover continues, we can add to the list above the name of Parag Agrawal, the new CEO of Twitter and a native of Mumbai, India. Agrawal assumes the top spot at Twitter upon the sudden departure of founder Jack Dorsey yesterday.
While it’s difficult to see how Twitter could become any more woke than it has been under Dorsey, we’re sure Agrawal will give it a try. He is famous for having declared in a November 2020 interview:
Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment…focus[ing] less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.
And times certainly are a-changing.
For more, see Forbes.