These are 10 lesser known facts about Flipkart

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Jan 19, 2017, 14:34 IST

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Sachin Bansal is an amazing gamer. Back then, if you beat him, the dinner was on him.
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During Big Billion Day, Sachin, Binny, Punit and others delivered the products to some of the customers.
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Flipkart became the first Indian company app to cross 50 million downloads on Play store.

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Flipkart’s search engine is called ‘Sherlock’
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Internally, Flipkart has a ‘seller fraud detective team’, who place orders to check how the seller behavior is and have kicked out fraudulent sellers.

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Flipkart has annual gaming tournament for its employees
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Sachin is a go-getter. He likes to strike a deal once he sees a good one, without wasting anytime. He is not obsessed with eliminating risks, instead likes to achieve the impossible

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Binny likes the outdoors and loves to go for white water rafting adventures. He is also an accomplished tech guy, as while working for Sarnoff Corporation he had developed a lane senor device for cars.
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Binny was actually rejected twice by Google, before he joined Amazon. Sachin and Binny had actually crossed each other’s path thrice before they started Flipkart.

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They first met in school, and then they were good friends at IIT Delhi and finally realizedtheir common dream when they both joined Amazon. However, Sachin joined in 2006 and Binny in 2007.
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