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David Marcus Joins Facebook As Messaging Products Head

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David Marcus, president of PayPal at eBay, has joined Facebook as the social network’s new messaging head. His new role will be vice president, Messaging Products.  Mr. Marcus will however not be overseeing the WhatsApp or Slingshot instant messaging services also owned by Facebook, according to Forbes. 

In a Facebook post talking about his new role, Mr. Marcus said leading 14,000 people from a few hundred people took a toll on him in the first year of his starting with PayPal. Though the second year became more natural, he says he realized his role was becoming a managemen one, versus building products that mattered to a lot of people. He says he decided to move on to something that is closer to what he loves to do everyday after much deliberation.

Mr. Marcus joined PayPal three years ago, when his company Zong was acquired by the payment’s network. According to a statement released by Facebook, Mr. Marcus taught himself to code when he was eight and launched his first startup when he was 23.

Every day around 12 billion messages are sent on Facebook. Messenger, the standalone messaging app from the social networking giant, is used by more than 200 million people every month.

[Image courtesy: Facebook]

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