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Twitter’s Parag Agrawal is youngest CEO in S&P 500

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Twitter’s Parag Agrawal will replace founder and CEO Jack Dorsey (Jack Dorsey) and is now the youngest CEO in the S&P 500 Index. Zuckerberg).

However, Agrawal is 37 years old, the same age as Mark Zuckerberg. According to Bloomberg News, Twitter did not disclose Agrawal’s date of birth for security reasons, but stated that he was born in 1984, later than Zuckerberg’s birthday on May 14.

“I don’t think the age issue is a big deal, especially for companies like this. This may be an advantage,” Stanford University Business School professor David Laquer who studies CEO performance told Bloomberg. The 45-year-old Dorsey is already one of the dozen youngest CEOs of the largest companies in the United States.

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“In fact, Dorsey is withdrawing from the board, so he will not be like the shadow CEO, he must have real confidence in him,” Lacker added.

According to data compiled by Bloomberg, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, 91, is the oldest CEO in the S&P 500. The data shows that the average age of CEOs in the 500 largest companies is about 58 years old. Spencer Stuart, an executive recruiter measured by data from S&P 500 companies, has shown in the past 20 years that the age of CEOs is young but has grown steadily. The average age of the S&P 500 directors is 63 years old. Stuart.Parag Agrawal was a technologist at Twitter before being appointed as the CEO of the platform, and is now the latest Indian to lead the American tech giant.

Parag Agrawal received his computer science and engineering education at Mumbai Institute of Technology, India, and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in California. He joined Twitter in 2011. He became its CTO in 2017. As the company’s technical director, he is responsible for overseeing machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as the company’s broad technology strategy. Agrawal is also the person in charge of the company’s “Bluesky” promotion, which aims to create a more open and decentralized standard for social media.

“I know some of you know me well, some only know me a little bit, and some don’t know me at all,” Agrawal said in an email to a Twitter employee based in San Francisco.

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Day 6 box office receipts for Game Changer: Ram Charan’s film takes another hit, earning over ₹110 crore

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Day 6 box office receipts for Game Changer: Ram Charan’s film takes another hit, earning over ₹110 crore

Game Changer box office collection day 6: Ram Charan and Kiara Advani-starrer released in theatres on January 10.
Game Changer box office collection: Ram Charan, Kiara Advani-Game Changer is one the first big releases of this year, and came with huge audience expectations. However the film opened to mixed reviews and has performed decently at the box office. As per the latest version of Sacnilk.com, Game Changer has minted ₹6.11 crore in its sixth day of release. Game Changer is directed by Shankar.

Game Changer box office collection

The report states that Game Changer has now crossed the ₹110 crore mark at the box office. It minted ₹5.55 crore on its first Wednesday, which is the lowest for the film so far. The film had seen a slight growth on its fifth day of release, with ₹10 crore net. The overall collections now stand at ₹112.26 crore.

Game Changer minted ₹51 crore on its opening day, and saw a dip in collections on its second day with ₹21.6 crore. Day three collections were at ₹15.9 crore whereas day four net was ₹7.65 crore. The film saw a sharp decline in its weekdays and is yet to recover. Game Changer is facing stiff competition from a number of releases, which includes Nandamuri Balakrisha’s Daaku Maharaj, Unni Mukundan’s Marco and Allu Arjun’s Pushpa 2: The Rule.

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Amid box office concerns for the film, a pirated version of Game Changer was allegedly aired on a local TV channel and shown in buses. Screenshots of the same surfaced on X, which caught the attention of producer Sreenivas Kumar. He took to his X account to demand strict action on it.

A few days ago, the makers of the film had filed a complaint against individuals for allegedly leaking a pirated version of the film online. The complaint also states that before the film’s release, the producers and a few team members were threatened through social media and messaging platforms like WhatsApp, wherein the same alleged pirates demanded money from producers and threatened to leak the pirated version if their demands were not fulfilled.

Game Changer is directed by Shankar and stars Ram Charan, Kiara Advani, and SJ Suryah. The film has also been released in Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam.

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