Education
They both completed their schooling at Saint Anne"s Convent School, Chandigarh and coincidentally, were students of computer science engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
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Sachin Bansal
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Sachin is from Chandigarh and is an engineering graduate from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Sachin Bansal is originally from Chandigarh, the capital city of Punjab and Haryana. Although they share the same last name, they are not related.
Before the tremendous success of Flipkart, Sachin Bansal wanted to become a professional gamer.
After completion of degree Sachin Bansal joined Techspan company where he served for few months. In 2006, he joined Amazon.com India as Senior Software Engineer.
Then he got Binny Bansal into the Amazon.com and after 6 months they both decided to leave Amazon.They initially thought of starting a comparison search engine, but realized that the market for East-commerce in India was very small. Hence, after leaving Amazon in 2007, they founded Flipkart as an e-commerce company.
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In September 2015, Sachin Bansal along with the co-founder of Flipkart, Binny Bansal, was named the 86th richest person in India with a Netto worth of $1.3 billion by Forbes India Rich List. Entrepreneur of the year – ET Awards (2012–2013).He also became richest person in Forbes World magazine 2016.
