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As
Agrawal took questions from staff that were posted on the company's Slack
messaging service, he encouraged employees to remain focused and told them
"we as employees control what happens," said the source, who did not
want to be identified because they were not authorised to speak publicly on the
matter.
The
meeting came after news broke that the Tesla chief executive officer had
offered to buy the social media company for $43 billion.
Agrawal
told staff that the board was continuing to review Musk's offer, but that he
was limited in what he could share with the employees.
In
one section of the question and answer session, one employee asked how the
company arrived to the decision to offer Musk a board seat.
"Are
we just going to start inviting any and all billionaires to the board?"
according to a section of the meeting heard by Reuters.
Agrawal
responded that the board was acting in the best interest of shareholders.
"I
have a strong point of view that people who are critical of our service, their
voice is something that we must emphasise so that we can learn and get
better," he said.
Another employee submitted a question asking Agrawal to
address how he viewed Musk's definition of free speech and whether it aligned
with how Twitter approaches the concept.
Agrawal did not directly address the question, saying much
of the company's work was focused on continuously improving "the health of
conversation" on Twitter.
Earlier in the Q&A, Agrawal said he believed
"Twitter stands for way more than one human, any human."
A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on the meeting. ©
Reuters