Was Twitter Sale Set By Vineeta Agarwala?
Parag Agarwal’s wife Vineeta Agarwala seems to have been caught in the wrong spot when it comes to Elon Musk’s buyout of Twitter. It was Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) – that had agreed to pay $400 million as part of Musk's new $7.1 billion financing commitments. One of America’s top US VC firms apparently, has Vineeta Agarwala as its general partner.
Rumour goes that
the whole deal is now going to pose a conflict of interest owing to Ms.
Agarwala’s association with Twitter and the funding itself. With the possibility
of Musk becoming a partial CEO of the newly acquired microblogging platform, Parag’s
position now become insecure as CEO.
If asked to
leave, he would receive nearly $39 million due to a clause in his contract on sudden
termination of services. His total compensation for 2021 was $30.4 million,
largely in stocks.
However, if the
deal has come through an ‘under-the-table’ understanding, his exit could mean a
huge kickback later, economists feel. All this has come to surface only after
Ms. Agarwala’s association has been established with the Twitter sale.
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