Craziest ways that CEOs got fired

Craziest ways that CEO's got fired, when Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, CEO Parag Agarwal was inside the company's San Francisco headquarters. Agarwal had become CEO less than a year earlier after Jack Dorsey stepped down, and at first him and Musk were on good terms since they were texting about engineering, and the whole vibe seemed positive, but then Musk made a demand that changed everything. On a FaceTime call, Musk told Agarwal to fire Twitter's head of legal, "Vijaya Gaddi, immediately, and when Agarwal refused, Musk gave him one day to do it, but Agarwal still said no." After that, Musk tried to walk away from the entire deal, claiming Twitter was hiding how many fake accounts were on the platform, so Twitter sued him and the pressure of going to trial forced Musk to complete the purchase, but the night Musk finally closed that deal is where this gets wild. He walked into Twitter headquarters carrying a sink and posted a video caption, "Let that sink in, and within a day, fired Agarwal, along with three other top executives, all of them escorted out of the building within minutes." Musk accused them of misleading him about fake accounts, and later told his biographer he'd go after every one of Twitter's executives for the rest of their lives. They ended up suing for over $128 million in unpaid severance, which settled in 2025, and the part that makes this even crazier is that they were all let go just hours before roughly $200 million in payouts was set to kick in, because Musk rushed the deal to close that evening instead of the next morning.