Indian startup head Kunal Shah appointed as new WhatsApp boss

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• In 2018, Shah founded CRED, a fintech platform with 17 million monthly active users, after earlier building FreeCharge, one of India’s early digital payments startups.

  according to TechCrunch

• As part of the transition, Miten Sampat, who has overseen strategy and finance at CRED since 2020, will take over as interim chief executive with immediate effect.

  according to TechCrunch

• Since then, the company has aggressively expanded into offering wealth management, insurance and lending services to its 17 million users.

  according to eNCA +2

• While India is WhatsApp's largest market - with over half a billion users, according to 2021 government figures - analysts say it has largely missed the chance to build an equally popular payments service.

  according to eNCA +2

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