{"id":1016424,"date":"2026-06-23T10:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T05:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016424"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T05:04:11","slug":"meta-gets-kunal-shah-to-lead-whatsapp-globally-but-whats-next-for-cred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/23\/meta-gets-kunal-shah-to-lead-whatsapp-globally-but-whats-next-for-cred\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta gets Kunal Shah to lead WhatsApp globally, but what&#8217;s next for Cred?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cred founder Kunal Shah on Monday stepped down as CEO of the fintech startup to take over as the global head of WhatsApp, marking a major leadership transition for the company as it also secures a \u20b98,550 crore (approximately $900 million) investment from Meta.<\/p>\n<p>The deal deepens Meta&#8217;s presence in India&#8217;s fintech sector while opening a new chapter for Cred without its founder at the helm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cred founder Kunal Shah on Monday stepped down as CEO of the fintech startup to take over as the global head of WhatsApp, marking a major leadership transition for the company as it also secures a \u20b98,550 crore (approximately $900 million) investment from Meta. The deal deepens Meta&#8217;s presence in India&#8217;s fintech sector while opening a new chapter for Cred without its founder at the helm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016424","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016425,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016424\/revisions\/1016425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}