Twitter’s next CEO, Linda Yaccarino, is well-known for her tight relationship with ad agencies and her hard-nosed negotiating tactics.
WSJ’s Suzanne Vranica explains what she can bring to the social media company.
Photo: Charles Sykes/NBCUniversal/Getty Images (Published earlier this year)X Corp. Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino said on Wednesday the company is “just about break even” in terms of operating cash-flow and should turn a profit early next year.
Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s former ad-sales czar who joined the company, formerly called Twitter, in June, has faced questions about how much she can rebuild X’s ad business after tumult under company owner Elon Musk, who acquired the platform late last year and swiftly cut thousands of jobs, upended features like verification and loosened content-moderation policies.
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Twitter’s, Linda Yaccarino, WSJ’s Suzanne Vranica, Charles Sykes, Elon Musk
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X Corp