- Joe Benarroch, head of enterprise operations at X, is leaving the corporate after one 12 months.
- Benarroch was an in depth advisor to CEO Linda Yaccarino, beforehand working collectively at NBCUniversal.
- He is named a hard-charging govt and his type has upset folks at each NBCUniversal and X.
X chief govt officer Linda Yaccarino’s head of enterprise operations, Joe Benarroch, is leaving the corporate, The Wall Avenue Journal reported on Tuesday, citing folks aware of the matter.
Benarroch was an in depth advisor to Yaccarino and held vital affect over her choices, folks aware of the pair informed the Journal.
Earlier than becoming a member of X, beforehand referred to as Twitter, the 2 labored collectively at Comcast firm NBCUniversal, the place Benarroch reported to Yaccarino, who was promoting chief on the time.
Benarroch is named a hard-charging govt and his type has upset colleagues at each NBCUniversal and X, in line with the Journal, who cited nameless individuals who labored with him.
Benarroch can be leaving X a 12 months after beginning on the firm. He labored at NBCUniversal for almost 5 years and was at Meta earlier than, in line with his LinkedIn profile.
X and Benarroch didn’t instantly reply to Enterprise Insider’s request to substantiate the information.
In January, Benarroch mentioned that X deliberate to rent 100 full-time content material moderators in Austin and give attention to combatting content material associated to little one sexual exploitation. The information got here days earlier than Yaccarino appeared earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee for a listening to on on-line little one security.
His departure comes after Elon Musk’s social media platform introduced latest modifications to encourage folks to make use of X extra.
In late Could, an X govt mentioned that they’d make “likes” on the location non-public, so that folks might like extra “edgy” posts with out fear of blowback. Earlier this week, X mentioned it would permit grownup content material on the platform so long as it got here with a warning and was posted consensually.
