Facebook Appoints New Boss WhatsApp, Who Is It?

Jakarta - One week after founder and CEO WhatsApp Jan Koum resign, Facebook has found a replacement. He is Chris Daniels who is appointed as the new boss WhatsApp.

As quoted from Recode, Wednesday (09/05/2018) Daniels will take over by occupying the position of Vice President at WhatsApp.

Daniels is not a new person. He has spent more than seven years in the company. Daniels last position on Facebook by occupying a product executive who runs Internet.org, a company that presents free internet service.

Nevertheless, in the work history Daniels has never worked directly under the auspices of WhatsApp. About that, Facebook has another reason, namely experience.

Daniels is judged to have valuable experience on the international scene, especially in areas with poor internet connections. The experience is expected to be the key to running WhatsApp in the future.

Not yet known, what will be done Daniels as a new captain WhatsApp with his experience. Facebook itself wants everyone to connect using social networking.

In addition, it is worth awaiting also on WhatsApp business model in the future under the leadership of Daniels. Considering it has been four years since acquired Facebook with a dowry of USD 19 billion, WhatsApp is still looking for the identity of the business model.

Previously, when Koum was still CEO, he promised his instant messaging service was ad-free, even though it is now under the world's largest advertising company.

Meanwhile with the appointment of Daniels as the new boss of WhatsApp, he will be responsible to Facebook Co Chief Product Officer Chris Cox. This can not be separated from the reform of the structure of higher officials in the body of Facebook as a whole.