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推特“換帥”:新掌門人80後,33歲 CTO,37歲CEO

文 / 王不留(微信公衆号:考研英語筆記)

Twitter’s new boss

推特“換帥”:新掌門人80後,33歲 CTO,37歲CEO

Fifteen years after launching the firm, Jack Dorsey announced on Monday that he will quit Twitter. Replacing him as chief executive with immediate effect is Parag Agrawal, formerly the firm’s chief technology officer. Mr Agrawal seems more strait-laced than his predecessor. The 37-year-old is an engineer with a PhD in computer science from Stanford. His appointment comes at a time of rapid change: Twitter churned out more features in the past two years than at any other point in its history, including a new subscription service and ways for users to make money.

Mr Agrawal’s appointment will not be a complete departure from Mr Dorsey’s vision for Twitter. The two men worked closely on its recent changes and share two goals for its future. One is to turn the firm into a crypto company (perhaps by paying tweet authors with tips in TwitterCoin). The other is to create a decentralised social-media platform that a number of firms could operate on. Mr Agrawal has his hands full.

Twitter’s new boss

推特新老闆

Fifteen years after launching the firm, Jack Dorsey announced on Monday that he will quit Twitter. Replacing him as chief executive with immediate effect is Parag Agrawal, formerly the firm’s chief technology officer. Mr Agrawal seems more strait-laced than his predecessor. The 37-year-old is an engineer with a PhD in computer science from Stanford. His appointment comes at a time of rapid change: Twitter churned out more features in the past two years than at any other point in its history, including a new subscription service and ways for users to make money.

成立公司15年後,傑克·多爾西(Jack Dorsey)周一宣布,他将離開推特。原公司首席技術官(CTO)帕拉格·阿格拉瓦(Parag Agrawal)接替其首席執行官(CEO)職務,即刻生效。阿格拉瓦爾似乎比他的前任更加保守。這位37歲的工程師擁有斯坦福大學計算機科學博士學位。他的任命正值公司快速變化之際:推特過去兩年推出了比其曆史上任何時候都多的功能,包括新的訂閱服務,以及有助于使用者掙錢的方式。

王不留注:

阿格拉瓦爾擁有斯坦福大學計算機科學博士學位,大學則就讀于印度理工學院。

他最初加入Twitter時擔任軟體工程師,已經在該公司任職超過10年。2017年被任命為CTO。

他負責Twitter的技術戰略,并改進軟體開發進度,同時推動整個公司加強機器學習技術的進步。

2019年12月以來,阿格拉瓦爾一直都在從事“藍天項目”(Project Bluesky),這是一個由獨立開源架構師、工程師和設計師組成的團隊,意在打擊Twitter上的網絡欺淩和誤導性資訊。

多爾西曾經表示,藍天項目有意開發一種新的去中心化技術,他們希望Twitter和其他公司都能成為藍天項目的客戶,基于這一标準重新建構自己的平台。

阿格拉瓦爾在加盟Twitter之前,曾經任職于微軟、雅虎和AT&T實驗室。

chief executive 總經理,總裁 ;  美國總統 

immediate effect 直接的影響

chief technology officer 首席技術官 

strait-laced 拘謹保守的,古闆的 

predecessor 前任 ;  原先的東西 ;  被替代的事物

computer science 計算機科學 ;  電腦科學

at a time 依次 ;  每次 

rapid change 迅速變化 

churned 劇烈攪動 ;  猛烈翻騰 ;  反胃,惡心 ;  感到不安,心煩意亂 ;  churn的過去分詞和過去式 

any other 其他的 ;  任何其他的 ;  其他任何一個

Mr Agrawal’s appointment will not be a complete departure from Mr Dorsey’s vision for Twitter. The two men worked closely on its recent changes and share two goals for its future. One is to turn the firm into a crypto company (perhaps by paying tweet authors with tips in TwitterCoin). The other is to create a decentralised social-media platform that a number of firms could operate on. Mr Agrawal has his hands full.

阿格拉瓦爾的任命不會完全背離多爾西對推特的願景。兩人在最近的公司變化中密切合作,為推特的未來設定了兩個目标。一個是将公司轉變為加密貨币公司(也許可以用推特币打賞推文作者)。另一個是建立一個去中心化的社交媒體平台,許多公司都可以在這個平台上營運。阿格拉瓦爾忙得不可開交。

appointment 約會 ;  任命 ;  預約 ;  委任 ;  約定 ;  職務 ;  職位

vision 視力 ;  視野 ;  想象 ;  幻象 ;  夢幻 ;  神示 ;  異象

closely 精密地;緊密地;嚴密地;仔細地;接近地 

changes 改變 ;  變化 ;  使不同 ;  變換,改換,變成 ;  變更 ;  變革 ;  替代 ;  更換 ;  替代物 ;  change的第三人稱單數和複數 

goals for 得分數;進球數

paying 付費 ;  付酬 ;  交納 ;  償還 ;  赢利 ;  創收 ;  pay的現在分詞

a number of 一些 ;  許多的

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