Ajit Mohan on Facebook's transformation into a more India-centric platform

Facebook is transforming into a more local, more Indian company focussed on connecting friends and family, and small businesses, Mohan tells Vanita Kohli-Khandekar

Ajit Mohan is looking relaxed, albeit older. Maybe it is the pepper beard he’s added. The 45-year old head of Facebook’s India business is at home in Gurugram when we connect on Zoom one Monday morning for coffee. We chat about our last meeting at a conference in Mumbai when he was heading Hotstar. It is 18 months since he moved to Facebook. What’s it like heading the India arm of the world’s largest social media company? Mohan smiles. “Pretty satisfying,” says he. My tea, brewing in the pot before I logged in, arrives. Mohan raises his cup of coffee