Agrawal: Betting on high-upside hiring requires embracing decisive firing
Parag Agrawal · Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for AI | Parag Agrawal (Co-founder and CEO of Parallel) · Aug 14, 2025 · at 41:47
Parag Agrawal, co-founder of Parallel and former Twitter CEO, discusses startup hiring philosophy with First Round's Todd Jackson.
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“The second thing that's really important, if you embrace this sort of bet, take risk on hiring, is you have to be somewhat like, the system only works if you also embrace being decent at firing.”
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