Elon Musk officially announced Linda Yaccarino, formerly NBCUniversal’s top sales exec, will take the helm as Twitter’s new CEO.
“I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!” Musk tweeted Friday. “@LindaYacc
will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology. Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app.”
The announcement came a day after Musk announced he’d hired a new CEO to start in about six weeks, but didn’t name her. Reports soon surfaced that Yaccarino, NBCU’s chairman, global advertising and partnerships, was in talks to become Twitter’s CEO. On Friday, Yaccarino resigned from NBCU.
Back in December, Musk said he would step aside as Twitter’s chief executive once he found “someone foolish enough” to take over the role. Even then, however, Musk — who’s also CEO of Tesla and SpaceX — will retain control of the social network and remain closely involved in running it. Musk recently officially renamed the company “X Corp.” as the parent of Twitter.