Acquisition
Binny Bansal: $16.0B moved in 2018
Walmart bought about 77 per cent of Flipkart, then the largest e-commerce deal ever done in India.
The figure
- Amount16,000,000,000 US dollars
- CategoryAcquisition
- CorridorBengaluru, India → Bentonville, United States
- Distance14.5K km apart
- Year reported2018
- Documentation confidence96/100
What that amount buys
$16.0B is roughly 213 long-range private jets, 38.1K median-priced US homes, or 198.5K years of median US household income.
Binny Bansal is publicly known as co-founder, flipkart. The arc drawn for this entry joins Bengaluru and Bentonville because those are the places the two sides of the deal are based — it is not the route a wire took through the banking system.
Source
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