Two Twitter leaders are leaving after Musk’s deal to buy the company.

Two of Twitter’s leaders are leaving as a part of a shake-up of prime executives, based on an inner memo shared with workers on Thursday, as the corporate grapples with a takeover from Elon Musk, the world’s richest man.

Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter’s basic supervisor, is leaving and shall be changed by Jay Sullivan, based on the memo, which was obtained by The New York Instances. Mr. Sullivan is presently the interim basic supervisor of the patron product. Bruce Falck, Twitter’s basic supervisor for income, can be departing the corporate.

“It’s important to have the correct leaders on the proper time,” Parag Agrawal, chief govt of Twitter, mentioned within the memo to workers. Mr. Sullivan’s “product imaginative and prescient, skill to encourage, transfer shortly and drive change is what Twitter wants now, and sooner or later.”

The memo mentioned Twitter was additionally pausing most new hiring and pulling again on discretionary spending, although the corporate just isn’t presently planning layoffs. A part of this stems from the corporate’s not hitting targets in viewers and income development, Mr. Agrawal wrote.

Twitter has been in an uproar since Mr. Musk struck a deal final month to purchase the social media service for $44 billion. The billionaire, who additionally runs the electrical carmaker Tesla and the rocket firm SpaceX, has mentioned he’ll take Twitter non-public and needs to enhance the product. He has criticized a few of Twitter’s prime executives publicly, particularly for the way in which that they’ve moderated speech on the service.

Mr. Musk, who continues to be lining up some financing for the acquisition, is predicted to shut the deal for Twitter within the subsequent few months. In a pitch to buyers, he has mentioned he desires to quintuple Twitter’s income by 2028 and develop its customers to 931 million by then, up from 217 million on the finish of final yr.