X CEO Linda Yaccarino resigns after 2 years running Elon Musk platform
Yaccarino posted a positive message Wednesday about her tenure at the company formerly known as Twitter and said 'the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with' Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, maker of the chatbot Grok.
Musk hired Yaccarino, a veteran ad executive, in May 2023 buying Twitter for $44 billion (€37.6 billion) in late 2022.
He said at the time that Yaccarino's role would be focused mainly on running the company's business operations, leaving him to focus on product design and new technology.
In a post on the platform, Yaccarino said she was 'immensely grateful to [Musk] for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App'.
'X is truly a digital town square for all voices and the world's most powerful culture signal,' Yaccarino said.
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