Elon Musk might fire Twitter’s Vijaya Gadde who makes $17 million a year
SAN FRANCISCO: Tesla CEO Elon Musk might fire Twitter‘s legal head Vijaya Gadde, who makes about $17 million a year and is among the extremely paid executives at the micro-blogging platform, as soon as he takes control of.
Nevertheless, Gadde will get a severance package worth $12.5 million that consists of Twitter shares, reports The New York Post.
“Gadde, who made $17 million last year as Twitter’s top legal counsel, might be on the slicing block as Musk is supposedly preparing to slash jobs and decrease executive pay as he wants to protect financing for his Twitter bid,” the report stated.
The 48-year-old Gadde reportedly broke down in tears when attending to associates about the future of Twitter last week.
Musk also tweeted a meme that painted her as unconcerned to a “liberal predisposition” at Twitter as she was seen appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ in 2019 with previous Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
The world’s richest guy freely criticised Gadde for suspending the account of The New york city Post that composed an exclusive article about Hunter Biden’s laptop computer during the run-up to the 2020 United States presidential elections.
“Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organisation for releasing a sincere story was clearly extremely improper,” Musk had said in a tweet.
Reacting to online criticism directed at Gadde, another top Twitter executive defended her and implicated Musk of “misogyny”.
Lara Cohen, Twitter’s worldwide head of partners, likewise shared messages of assistance for Leslie Berland, the company’s chief marketing officer.
“Color me shocked SHOCKED that individuals are coming for 2 of our popular female executives on day 1 of this thing,” Cohen tweeted recently.
Released at Sun, 01 May 2022 06:33:40 +0000