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Good morning. Parag Agrawal is hardly the first tech leader to leave a large corporation and start his own company, but he brings a unique perspective to that experience. He’s been a senior executive, a CEO and a startup founder, and his conception of leadership has evolved dramatically in each new role.
On Wednesday, Agrawal took to the WSJ Technology Council Summit stage with the Leadership Institute’s Belle Lin. Most of the conversation focused on his startup, Parallel Web Systems. The company builds infrastructure designed to make the web more hospitable to AI agents that operate at scale. Toward the end, Belle asked the former Twitter CEO to share lessons from his career.
His answers were especially interesting because they tapped into something deeper than skills or performance. They were about how the relationship between the leader and the organization changes from role to role and how the leader’s mindset changes, too. They touched on the ultimate motivation, which is about creating something meaningful, especially when it extends beyond you.
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