{"id":1016565,"date":"2026-06-24T08:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016565"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:51:19","slug":"whatsapps-future-may-not-be-invented-in-us-but-in-india-one-transaction-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/24\/whatsapps-future-may-not-be-invented-in-us-but-in-india-one-transaction-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp&#8217;s future may not be invented in US but in India, one transaction at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, nobody could quite understand Cred&#8217;s business model. Now, in a joke going around the internet, Meta&#8217;s investment of $900 mn in Cred is being attributed to Mark Zuckerberg finally realising that the only way to understand the Indian fintech&#8217;s business model was to buy a large enough piece of it. <\/p>\n<p>Jokes apart, this is one of the most interesting tech moves involving India&#8217;s startup system in years. The investment values Cred at $4.5 bn, and founder Kunal Shah will now lead WhatsApp globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, nobody could quite understand Cred&#8217;s business model. Now, in a joke going around the internet, Meta&#8217;s investment of $900 mn in Cred is being attributed to Mark Zuckerberg finally realising that the only way to understand the Indian fintech&#8217;s business model was to buy a large enough piece of it. Jokes apart, this is one of the most interesting tech moves involving India&#8217;s startup system in years. The investment values Cred at $4.5 bn, and founder Kunal Shah will now lead WhatsApp globally.<\/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-1016565","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\/1016565","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=1016565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016586,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016565\/revisions\/1016586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}