WhatsApp’s new CEO is Indian

[Nrcewker]

So, around 3 hours ago, Mark Zuckerberg announced Kunal Shah as WhatsApp’s new CEO. He is replacing Will Cathcart.



Now, my concern is: Is it Mark’s strategy to capture more of the Indian masses, as:

- India is WhatsApp’s largest market.
- WhatsApp Pay and digital payments are strategically important.
- Kunal Shah built both CRED and FreeCharge and has deep experience in consumer fintech.

Also, there is a possibility that Kunal joined because Meta is investing tons of money in CRED, so CRED can now compete with the Indian giant PhonePe.

Also, now that an Indian is the CEO, can he be politically controlled by Indian political parties?

What are your thoughts?

[Bitcoin Smith]

Almost every tech giant compnaies CEO's are Indians, of course, we are smart but it is beyond being smart, and I guess as you said, this might be politically influenced by the party or even the users that the platform is under the control of India. Because we are the one who fell for 'Make in India'.

I am using for a very long time and it is useful to me, then I have Gpay and Phonepe but 99% of the time it's Gpay and I only use phonepe because they got the upl;oad qr option which is not available in gpay.

Maybe a proud moment but not really, nothing really changes if Indian become CEO, we need Indian compnaies to go international.