{"id":919825,"date":"2025-04-05T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=919825"},"modified":"2025-04-05T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:00:39","slug":"flipkart-co-founder-sachin-bansal-admits-disagreements-with-walmart-over-strategy-says-my-exit-from-flipkart-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/05\/flipkart-co-founder-sachin-bansal-admits-disagreements-with-walmart-over-strategy-says-my-exit-from-flipkart-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal admits disagreements with Walmart over strategy, says my exit from Flipkart was &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal has admitted that he was unhappy leaving Flipkart after its acquisition by Walmart in the year 2018. Bansal expressed deep dissatisfaction with his exit from the e-commerce giant, labeling it &#8220;unfinished business.&#8221; Speaking at Startup Mahakumbh, Bansal recounted a conversation where Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma remarked on his unhappiness despite a billion-dollar payout. \u201c(Paytm CEO) Vijay and I talked extensively after I exited Flipkart, and he jokingly said that you are the most unhappy billionaire I\u2019ve ever seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bansal, who sold his entire stake in the Bengaluru-based firm during its $16 billion acquisition by Walmart, admitted that the departure was neither planned nor desired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal has admitted that he was unhappy leaving Flipkart after its acquisition by Walmart in the year 2018. Bansal expressed deep dissatisfaction with his exit from the e-commerce giant, labeling it &#8220;unfinished business.&#8221; Speaking at Startup Mahakumbh, Bansal recounted a conversation where Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma remarked on his unhappiness despite a billion-dollar payout. \u201c(Paytm CEO) Vijay and I talked extensively after I exited Flipkart, and he jokingly said that you are the most unhappy billionaire I\u2019ve ever seen.&#8221; Bansal, who sold his entire stake in the Bengaluru-based firm during its $16 billion acquisition by Walmart, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}