Meta India public policy chief Rajiv Aggarwal, WhatsApp India head Abhijit Bose resign
Just days after Meta India chief Ajit Mohan quit, WhatsApp’s head of India Abhijit Bose and Meta’s public policy head for the country Rajiv Aggarwal have both left the social networking giants.
Rajiv Aggarwal has decided to step down from his role at Meta to pursue another opportunity, the statement said, wishing him the best for future endeavours.
The tech giant also announced the appointment of Shivnath Thukral, who was Director of WhatsApp Public Policy in India, as Director of Public Policy for Meta in India across all its platforms. In his new role, Thukral will define and lead important policy development initiatives across apps – Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp – in India.
Bose announced his resignation on LinkedIn in which he said, “After a small break, I plan to rejoin the entrepreneurial world,” he said, adding that his stepping down had been planned for a while,” but given the events last week” they wanted to hold this back to “focus on supporting those impacted last week”.
Will Cathcart, Head of WhatsApp said, “I want to thank Abhijit Bose for his tremendous contributions as our first Head of WhatsApp in India. His entrepreneurial drive helped our team deliver new services that have benefited millions of people and businesses. There is so much more WhatsApp can do for India and we’re excited to continue helping advance India’s digital transformation.”
Meta has been facing challenges of mounting expenses and the economic slowdown affecting its business, the company has already laid off around 11,000 employees, which includes the Indian staff as well.
The layoffs come just a week after Twitter’s new owner, billionaire Elon Musk, laid off a large number of employees. Several job cuts have occurred at other tech firms that hired quickly during the pandemic.
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What’s app belongs to Facebook. And Facebook or Meta, is owned by Mark Zuckerberg. And who is a pal and business partner of Mukesh Ambani.
Both WEF pillars.
Draw your own conclusions.
Useless & worthless companies. Growth is on selling User’s data to third party & zero on content. Now the data has reached saturation i.e. no new Users are getting added & data buyers are not interested to pay for incremental data which is minimal – that is the reason for growth heading towards dead end & less revenue, which is hitting it hard now.
Comparatively Android has more User data to be sold in market & get revenue. It is Facebook challenger.
Same thing happening with Twitter.