Twitter Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal sought to reassure employees during an all-hands meeting on Thursday that the company was not being "held hostage" by news of Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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- Twitter Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal sought to reassure employees during an all-hands meeting on Thursday that the company was not being “held hostage” by news of Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter.
- The meeting came after news broke that the Tesla chief executive officer had offered to buy the social media company for $43 billion.
- A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on the meeting, but said the board was continuing to review the offer, but that he was limited in what he could share with the employees in the Q&A.
- A source told Reuters that “we as employees control what happens,” the source said.
- The source did not want to be identified because they were not authorized to