Neeraj Arora

Arora is widely credited with spearheading WhatsApp’s record-breaking $22 billion acquisition by Facebook back in 2014, though he unexpectedly quit the company in 2018, the same year his longtime boss Jan Koum also quit — reportedly after clashing with both Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. While Arora’s exact net worth is not publicly known, the WhatsApp-Facebook deal likely made him set for life. He’s busy with launching HalloApp, an ad-free social network that’s actually a close competitor to WhatsApp. He is an IIT graduate as well as a management graduate from the Indian School of Business, gave up his high profile job managing global M&A at Google to join one of Silicon Valley’s hottest starts-ups. Arora served as the principal, corporate development, at Google and beforethat he was the chief manager at Times Internet Ltd.