I'm interviewing Parag Agrawal of Twitter/Parallel fame for Long Strange Trip today. Any burning questions I should ask him?
Zynga founder Mark Pincus suggests asking former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal why he didn't cut headcount by 80%
HubSpot's Brian Halligan solicited questions for his upcoming podcast.
Users accused Parag Agrawal of opposing the First Amendment and participating in censorship of the NY Post story as Twitter CTO.
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@bhalligan i imagine he's not an elon fan but i'd like to hear what the pros and cons of elon's style are and if he learned anything from him (and learned what not to do).

@bhalligan What did he get done this week?

@bhalligan Where (besides @p0) would Parag want to start his career if he was 25 again?

@bhalligan Does he agree with the massive layoff at x that Elon did? If yes, what prevented it from happening before? If no, why not?

@thogge @bhalligan my take was the layoff would nuke their revenues and his job was to maximize EV, which he did
@bhalligan Kobe, LeBron, or Jordan???
@bhalligan Why didnt he fire 80 pct?
I'm interviewing Parag Agrawal of Twitter/Parallel fame for Long Strange Trip today. Any burning questions I should ask him?

@bhalligan ‘What does a completely ‘agent - native’ web page or data standard actually look like from a Parrallel’s perspective? ‘ 💫hope that helps 🫶🏻

1. Matt Taibbi’s Twitter Files showed internal debate over blocking the NY Post story. As CTO, what was your involvement and why use the “hacked materials” label when it wasn’t hacked?
2. Bari Weiss (building on Taibbi) exposed Visibility Filtering and blacklists on conservative accounts. Who decided these, and was politics involved?
3. Taibbi’s files revealed frequent Biden campaign and admin flagging requests. How extensive was this coordination, and how much did it drive decisions?
4. Taibbi/Weiss files showed suppression of lab-leak and dissenting scientists. Why throttle those views, especially with government input?
5. Elon fired ~80% proving it could run lean. Why the huge headcount under your leadership—was it bloated?

@bhalligan Does he hold any grudges against Elon?

@PaulYacoubian @bhalligan Not sure it was the layoff that nuked revenue was it
Yes cannot disagree he maximized EV

@bhalligan What plan and ideas where there to make Twitter more profitable since it was mostly unprofitable since founding?

@bhalligan Why did he move to the U.S. if he hates the First Amendment so much? He had so many other options.

@bhalligan Can in introduce you to an interesting Boston founder? Tom Hazel with LatentSpin.

@bhalligan Ask him about his pivot from RPA to parallel

@bhalligan Ask him , what his ass would be doing if he was still in India and and facing the Ai tsunami ,As 22/23 year old unemployed college ollege grad

@bhalligan What are some decisions Elon made for Twitter that was good, and which wouldn’t he have made?

@bhalligan *resilience & pain tolerance* during crisis.

@bhalligan How is Parallel different to using @firecrawl @browserbase @perplexity_ai ?

@bhalligan What did he get done this week
