{"id":1016572,"date":"2026-06-24T08:27:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016572"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:58:10","slug":"why-meta-is-betting-on-kunal-shah-to-unlock-whatsapps-true-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/24\/why-meta-is-betting-on-kunal-shah-to-unlock-whatsapps-true-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Meta is betting on Kunal Shah to unlock WhatsApp\u2019s true potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kunal Shah is all over the news at the moment. The founder of CRED has not only secured a minority investment from Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta but also taken the role of leading WhatsApp globally. In the high-stakes world of technology, where WhatsApp remains at the center of the whole digital ecosystem, hiring Shah to lead Meta\u2019s most popular product could pave the way for WhatsApp to evolve from a basic texting app into a massive digital powerhouse. <\/p>\n<p>The $900 million investment in CRED is seen as a masterfully structured talent acquisition exercise designed to secure Kunal Shah, one of India\u2019s most prominent finance entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kunal Shah is all over the news at the moment. The founder of CRED has not only secured a minority investment from Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta but also taken the role of leading WhatsApp globally. In the high-stakes world of technology, where WhatsApp remains at the center of the whole digital ecosystem, hiring Shah to lead Meta\u2019s most popular product could pave the way for WhatsApp to evolve from a basic texting app into a massive digital powerhouse. The $900 million investment in CRED is seen as a masterfully structured talent acquisition exercise designed to secure Kunal Shah, one of India\u2019s [&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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016572","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=1016572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016594,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016572\/revisions\/1016594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}