Mihir Dalal’s candid Flipkart story ‘Big Billion Startup’ wins Gaja Capital Business Book Prize
The prize, established by Gaja Capital in 2019, carries an award of Rs 15 lakh for the winner. Abhishek Chinnappa/Reuters
Mihir Dalal, a business journalist with
Mint newspaper has won the Rs 15-lakh Gaja Capital Business Book Prize for his first book
Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story. The book offers a rare behind the scenes look at not only the success, dip, and rise of the first major online retailer in India, but also captures, importantly, the often tense relationships between the investors and the management, which at many points overshadowed the company’s commercial success and culminated in the spectacular departure of the founders.
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