![]() Not all dreams come true but the Flipkart mafia has more than a few great ones. No doubt such an ambience bred quite a few notable founders & their inventive startups. Also a deeply engineering technology driven outlook which searches for knack for problem solving as a major quality in its people. Apart from that, he also claims that Flipkart has a very open culture. Yeah! And among these "mafias" some of them turned millionaires soon after if you are wondering!įlipkart has been a popular cradle to the latest bunch of over 200 startups because it looks for ‘audacity’ in its employees - entrepreneurial spirit and appropriate skill set that is in the words of its ex-COO of Flipkart- No wonder so many of its employees went on to become successful entrepreneurs, he adds. Therefore, when a bunch of former Flipkart-ians aka ‘Flipsters’ did the same, i.e., build bold tech startups by deploying their innovative ideas and investing their genius selves, they were called ‘Flipkart Mafia’. Little did they know that this new company would be ushering in the new era of online marketplaces for the country, much like the companies founded by ex-Paypal employees.ĭestiny worked in similar ways even with Flipkart, whose ex-employees continued to form new businesses and startups. Money talks – as they say – and it sort of yelped in this case because in just a few years half a dozen of those tech-preneurs became billionaires.Ī similar thing happened with Amazon, where two ex-employees of the American eCommerce giant, Sachin, and Binny Bansal, dropped the company to found a new Indian eCommerce firm, Flipkart. ![]() ![]() This term was invented around 2007, to denote a set of former PayPal employees, who teamed up after quitting their jobs to ideate, fund, and found some of the leading tech companies of the world, such as Tesla, Inc., LinkedIn, SpaceX, YouTube, Uber, Airbnb, Yelp, etc., all of which eventually made huge fortunes. But do you want to know why and how did this term, mostly associated with crime, got associated with one of the most cherished Indian startups? ![]() As if phraseologies like ‘drug mafia’ or ‘movie mafia’ weren’t exciting the hipsters enough that even a legally run business had to be suffixed with this dreaded jargon ‘mafia’! Flipkart, we know, is the ‘don’ of online shopping in India (only figuratively we mean, don’t you worry!). ![]()
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