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Days after the US retail giant Walmart closed the $16-billion deal, which gave it 77 per cent ownership in e-commerce marketplace Flipkart, Chief Executive Officer KALYAN KRISHNAMURTHY said the firm continues to be run independently. In an interview with Bibhu Ranjan Mishra & Alnoor Peermohamed, Krishnamurthy said the company was quickly building or acquiring capabilities to tap the next 100-200 million consumers. Edited excerpts:
Now that Flipkart is part of a larger conglomerate, what is going to be your strategy for building capabilities internally or acquiring those externally?
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