Two top Twitter executives leave company ahead of Musk’s buyout, company pauses hiring

Twitter confirmed its stance to pause most hiring as two executives have left the company ahead of Elon Musk’s announced takeover.

“We can confirm that Kayvon Beykpour and Bruce Falck are leaving Twitter. Jay Sullivan is the new GM of Bluebird and interim GM of Goldbird. Effective this week, we are pausing most hiring and backfills, except for business-critical roles. We are pulling back on non-labor costs to ensure we are being responsible and efficient,” Twitter spokesperson Adrian Zamora told The Verge in confirming the changes.

In a series of Twitter posts on Thursday, Beykpour wrote it wasn’t his decision to leave the firm, adding that he is currently on paternity leave.

CEO Parag Agrawal “asked me to leave after letting me know that he wants to take the team in a different direction,” he wrote. “The truth is that this isn’t how and when I imagined leaving Twitter, and this wasn’t my decision,” he added.

Falck, meanwhile, wrote on Twitter Thursday to confirm he’s leaving the firm and thanked the teams he worked with at Twitter. However, he did not directly address the reason for him leaving but added that he was fired by Agrawal.

“I dedicate this Tweet to those engineers and thank you ALL for the opportunity to serve alongside you. It’s been awesome. There is a lot more to do so get back to work, I can’t wait to see what you build,” he said in a thread.

The announcement comes more than a week after Musk and Twitter jointly announced he would take over the company after he purchased a significant number of the social media firm’s shares. Musk wants to implement several changes to the company’s content moderation policies, reduce spam, and get rid of bots.

The deal, which is said to be worth $44 billion, has not yet been completed.