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Brad Stone: evaluation

27 May 2021 Acquired Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone)

“I think I quote a Flipkart (maybe) board member investor in the book as saying, “If there was a mistake to make, we made it.”

— Brad Stone

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Brad Stone
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Claim type
evaluation
Recorded
27 May 2021
Publisher
Acquired

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…The interesting thing in India is it does seem like the game is still afoot because Flipkart, to my mind, I haven’t thought about this until reading the book, totally screwed up by selling to Walmart. If Flipkart were still an independent Indian national company, absolutely the Modi regime (to my mind) would be putting their fingers on the scale. There would be Reliance right now as the homegrown champion. I think I quote a Flipkart (maybe) board member investor in the book as saying, “If there was a mistake to make, we made it. ” You had the great quote too, I don't know that you had a name on it but it was just an S-team member who said, “We didn't know if we were going to get it right in India, but we knew Walmart was going to get it wrong.”…

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