Nationality Indian Name Binny Bansal Role Engineer | Net worth $1.3 Billion(2015) Organizations founded Flipkart | |
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Similar People Sachin Bansal, Kunal Bahl, Naveen Tewari, Mukesh Bansal, Alok Kejriwal | ||
Binny bansal co founder flipkart
Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is from Chandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
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- Binny bansal co founder flipkart
- Flipkart s binny bansal finally fulfills his promise to his wife
- Early life
- Early career
- Awards and recognition
- References
Flipkart s binny bansal finally fulfills his promise to his wife
Early life
Binny Bansal is originally from Chandigarh, the capital city of Punjab and Haryana. His business partner, Sachin Bansal, is also from Chandigarh. Although they share the same last name, they are not related. They both coincidentally, were students of computer science engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Binny currently resides in Bangalore. His father is a retired chief manager at a bank and mother is in the government sector, has no sibling and is married to a homemaker.
Early career
Before co-founding Flipkart, Binny was previously employed with Amazon for 9 months before that he was rejected by Google twice. Binny Bansal and his business partner Sachin Bansal initially thought of starting a comparison search engine, but realized that the market for E-commerce in India was very small. Hence, after leaving Amazon in 2007, they founded Flipkart as an e-commerce company. Before joining Amazon, Binny worked with Sarnoff Corporation for 1.5 years, where he developed a lane sensor device for cars which would warn you and beep automatically if you change lanes without giving a signal.