{"id":1016593,"date":"2026-06-24T08:47:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016593"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:32:46","slug":"indian-startup-head-appointed-as-new-whatsapp-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/24\/indian-startup-head-appointed-as-new-whatsapp-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian startup head appointed as new WhatsApp boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Meta has tapped Indian fintech founder Kunal Shah as the new head of WhatsApp, as the US tech giant seeks ways to monetise the messaging app&#8217;s massive user base. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement, made Monday night, was accompanied by news that Meta would also lead a $900 million funding round in Shah&#8217;s consumer finance firm CRED. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kunal built CRED into one of India&#8217;s most important technology companies,&#8221; Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Meta has tapped Indian fintech founder Kunal Shah as the new head of WhatsApp, as the US tech giant seeks ways to monetise the messaging app&#8217;s massive user base. The announcement, made Monday night, was accompanied by news that Meta would also lead a $900 million funding round in Shah&#8217;s consumer finance firm CRED. &#8220;Kunal built CRED into one of India&#8217;s most important technology companies,&#8221; Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016593","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=1016593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016620,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016593\/revisions\/1016620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}