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Meta Names Kunal Shah WhatsApp Chief, Backs CRED

Meta named CRED founder Kunal Shah to lead WhatsApp, succeeding Will Cathcart after nearly seven years.

Meta hands WhatsApp to a fintech founder, and the signal is unmistakable

Meta has named Kunal Shah, the founder of Indian fintech giant CRED, as the new chief of WhatsApp .

Why Meta reached for Kunal Shah

The logic starts with geography.

How the deal is actually structured

The CRED financing is worth 900 million dollars and is built from a combination of primary and secondary share purchases.

What Cathcart leaves behind

Cathcart led WhatsApp from 2019 through a stretch of fast expansion.

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