It seems that this is not the best time for Facebook, and we are referring not only to the maze of scandals in which the company is involved but also to the flight of executives who are suffering.
In September, after eight years at the top of the social network, Instagram’s founders resigned in unison, and in April, Jan Koum, co-founder of Facebook’s huge instant messaging app WhatsApp, also announced his resignation.
Now, after seven years at the helm, another member of the leading group of instant messaging applications is resigning as WhatsApp Managing Director. Neeraj Arora confirmed his departure in a post on his Facebook profile.
“I am blessed to work with a small team of talented people and see how stamina can create something magical enough to be loved by thousands of people. I can’t be more proud of how WhatsApp continues to benefit every day in such different ways,” Arora wrote in the publication.
The executive did not explain the reasons for his departure but says he “feels committed” to the founders of WhatsApp, Jan Koum and Brian Acton, who also recently left the ship, although Mark Zuckerberg is not mentioned in his statement.
According to TechCrunch, Koum was dissatisfied with the way Zuckerberg and Facebook handled privacy: “These companies know literally everything about you, your friends, your interests and use everything to sell ads,” Koum said in a blog post collected by The Independent.
According to the TechCrunch report, Koum was also dissatisfied with “the way Facebook monetarized its messaging application and how it affected privacy,” which is why Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom, founders of Instagram, allegedly left the company.
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