WhatsApp head Will Cathcart is stepping down after seven years

Will Cathcart, who led WhatsApp for the past 7 years, is stepping down from his role arsenic Meta appoints a caller leader. On Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced connected Facebook that Kunal Shah, the laminitis of an Indian fintech startup called Cred, is taking implicit arsenic the caput of WhatsApp.

Cred is an app that allows radical to negociate their bills and person rewards for making payments done the platform. As portion of Shah's appointment, Meta is investing $900 cardinal into Cred, giving it a 20 percent involvement successful the startup, Bloomberg reports.

Cathcart became the caput of WhatsApp successful 2019, and portion astatine the helm, helium oversaw immoderate large changes, similar …

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