The name at the head of WhatsApp is leaving the role
Summary
Will Cathcart is stepping down from his role leading WhatsApp after about seven years and will move into a new position at Meta. Meta is naming CRED founder Kunal Shah as the new WhatsApp leader and is also taking a minority stake in CRED as part of the transition. The move signals a strategic shift toward payments and business tools inside WhatsApp. Cathcart's tenure is highlighted for scaling WhatsApp's privacy and encryption features to more than three billion users.
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