Elon Musk is now the CEO of Twitter; No evidence to suggest Sriram Krishnan will be named new CEO - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
November 3, 2022
In the context of Elon Musk firing top executives of Twitter after acquiring the company , a post is being widely shared claiming that the Indian origin Sriram Krishnan will be appointed as new Twitter CEO. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Sriram Krishnan will be the new CEO of Twitter.
Fact: According to media reports and security filings, Elon Musk is now the sole director and CEO of the Twitter after completing its acquisition in October 2022. Sriram Krishnan is an Indian-born American investor and technologist. He is now helping Elon Musk with Twitter temporarily with some other people. No reports suggest that Sriram will become new CEO of Twitter. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
According to the Times of India, after acquiring popular social media platform twitter for $44 billion and becoming its owner in October 2022, he fired then Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and other top officials.
Also, as per report by Reuters on 01 November 2022, Elon Musk will now serve as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Twitter. In securities filings, Musk named himself as sole director and CEO of Twitter.
Who is Sriram Krishnan?
According to Indian Express, Sriram Krishnan is an Indian-born American investor who held several managerial positions at Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook etc,. Sriram also hosts a show called ‘The Good Times Show’ in which he and his wife Aarthi talk to leading builders and CEOs. On 31 October, he tweeted that he is helping out Elon Musk with Twitter temporarily with some other people. Moreover, there are no reports to suggest that Sriram Krishnan will be made the CEO of Twitter.
Now that the word is out: I’m helping out @elonmusk with Twitter temporarily with some other great people.
I ( and a16z) believe this is a hugely important company and can have great impact on the world and Elon is the person to make it happen. pic.twitter.com/weGwEp8oga
To sum it up, Elon Musk is the new CEO of Twitter now. There is no evidence to suggest that Sriram Krishnan will become new CEO.