Event: CRED

Meta appoints CRED founder Kunal Shah as global head of WhatsApp. File 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 the internet. The web-based application caught the zeitgeist and moved from strength to strength.Back then, the platform solved a distance problem. Friends who relocated after college connected with each other on the platform. Families that moved to a different country shared important moments with relatives in their home countries. The medium acted as digital glue that connected physical relationships online, and in that process created a new way for people to communicate with each other. Published - June 26, 2026 07:50 am IST