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Revealed: How Walmart decided to oust Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal

Flipkart employees and workers at other startups wondered whether Walmart was using the episode to push Bansal aside

Binny Bansal
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Binny Bansal

Saritha Rai and Matthew Boyle | Bloomberg
For Binny Bansal, the end of his long run as co-founder of India’s most successful startup came Saturday when he began calling colleagues to say he was done. The 37-year-old was stunned that officials from Walmart Inc., his startup’s new owner, were probing details of an affair years earlier. An investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing. Nevertheless, a decade after he created e-commerce leader Flipkart, he was calling to say goodbye.

His ouster, announced Tuesday from Walmart’s hometown of Bentonville, Ark., left workers at Flipkart, half a world away in Bangalore, stunned and struggling to make sense of the cryptic

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