SUCCESS SQUARED
SACHIN BANSAL & BINNY BANSAL 36 Entrepreneurs
Because their home-bred firm Flipkart has successfully withstood the onslaught of rival Amazon India to post a 20 per cent rise in revenue to Rs 19,854 crore in 2016-17
Because Sachin has invested in seven and Binny in 17 startups with a total funding of Rs 169 crore and Rs 208 crore respectively as on December 2017, in domains as wide as edtech platform Unacademy and two-wheeler start-up Ather Energy
SOUR POINT When losses jumped 68 per cent to Rs 8,771 crore for the year ended March 2017
HOT TARGET Walmart and Amazon are reportedly in the race to buy Flipkart, with Walmart eyeing 51 per cent stake for about Rs 65,000 crore