Signalling how important India is for its growth, Facebook has hired Anand Chandrasekaran, a former Yahoo executive who was working as chief product officer at e-tailer Snapdeal, to boost future prospects for its Messenger app.
Based out of Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters, Chandrasekaran will focus on building strategies and partnerships for Messenger which hit one billion users in July this
“They
say the best journeys bring you home. We embarked on one two-and-a-half years
ago, and it has been nothing short of incredible. I am super excited to share
that building on the learning and experiences, I am joining Facebook to work on
Facebook Messenger platform,” Chandrasekaran wrote in a Facebook post on
Tuesday.
“Core
to every major platform I’ve worked on is a belief that technology should help
level the playing field for all-something that is at the heart of Facebook and
Messenger,” he added.
Chandrasekaran
co-founded Aeroprise, a mobile applications software company.
India has become a critical market for Facebook which is now second only to the
US in terms of Facebook users.
“Messenger
is going to be the next big platform for sharing privately,” Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg recently said.
“Connecting
India is an important goal we won’t give up on, because more than a billion
people in India don’t have access to the internet,” Zuckerberg wrote in a
Facebook post.
Agencies
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