Facebook hires Chandrasekaran
SIGNALLING how important India is for its growth, Facebook has hired Anand Chandrasekaran, pictured.
Chandrasekaran is a former Yahoo executive who was working as chief product officer at e-tailer Snapdeal, and has been hired by Facebook to boost future prospects for its Messenger app.
Chandrasekaran will focus on building strategies and partnerships for Messenger, which hit one billion users in July this year.
“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.”
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 said recently.
“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.