{"id":1016264,"date":"2026-06-23T08:09:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016264"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:48:30","slug":"meet-kunal-shah-serial-entrepreneur-and-metas-pick-to-lead-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/23\/meet-kunal-shah-serial-entrepreneur-and-metas-pick-to-lead-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Kunal Shah, serial entrepreneur and Meta&#8217;s pick to lead WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From pioneering one of India&#8217;s early digital payments ventures to building the fintech unicorn CRED and backing scores of startups, Kunal Shah has been a prominent face of the country&#8217;s technology ecosystem for almost two decades. He now gears up to script his most prominent global leadership role to date &#8212; running WhatsApp, the world&#8217;s largest messaging platform. <\/p>\n<p>The serial entrepreneur and prolific angel investor has been named the next head of WhatsApp, succeeding long-time chief Will Cathcart. Cathcart is helping guide Shah through this transition and will take on a new role at Meta, building new products from the ground up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From pioneering one of India&#8217;s early digital payments ventures to building the fintech unicorn CRED and backing scores of startups, Kunal Shah has been a prominent face of the country&#8217;s technology ecosystem for almost two decades. He now gears up to script his most prominent global leadership role to date &#8212; running WhatsApp, the world&#8217;s largest messaging platform. The serial entrepreneur and prolific angel investor has been named the next head of WhatsApp, succeeding long-time chief Will Cathcart. Cathcart is helping guide Shah through this transition and will take on a new role at Meta, building new products from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016291,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016264\/revisions\/1016291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}