Every business Meta builds or acquires is centred around community and advertisers. Take Facebook for instance: Mark Zuckerberg built it while he was at Harvard, creating a new urban town square on ...

Kunal Shah was recently appointed at the Global Head of WhatsApp. (Image: X) Kunal Shah is one of the most famous personalities on the Internet this week. Founder of Freecharge, acquirer of Snapdeal, ...

At 3:20 pm on an ordinary afternoon in 2021, a startup investor sent Kunal Shah a WhatsApp message. The pitch was brief. A founder was raising money. Shah had never heard of the company before. A ...

CRED’s Business Model For years the standing joke about CRED was that nobody could quite explain the business, only that the app looked expensive, the advertising was better than several streaming ...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s decision to hand leadership of WhatsApp to Kunal Shah, one of India’s most prominent angel investors and the founder of fintech star Cred, started with a cold email. Meta Chief ...

Until recently, Kunal Shah was a familiar name mainly within India's startup and investor circles. The founder of fintech company Cred had steadily built a following beyond the businesses he created.

Meta's decision to invest about ₹8,550 crore ($900 million) in the Indian fintech company CRED and appoint its founder, Kunal Shah, as the new global head of WhatsApp is one of the biggest technology ...

Kunal Shah, founder of Cred, becomes global head of WhatsApp at Meta as Cred nears IPO and WhatsApp Pay struggles in India. Shah leaves Cred after Meta’s $900M investment, aiming to unlock WhatsApp’s ...

“It’s been a minute”, said Kunal Shah as he listed the highlights of his journey with CRED, a fintech platform he built from scratch. He is now set to take a step away from the business and take over ...

Kunal Shah has long been fascinated with WhatsApp and its potential role in Indian payments. In 2017, he said, "Companies with large captive customer bases will be able to keep adding verticals at ...

Kunal Shah’s move from building Indian fintech ventures to leading WhatsApp globally has put fresh attention on the entrepreneur’s wealth, investments and ownership in CRED. What is Kunal Shah’s net ...