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Amazon vs Flipkart and Uber vs Ola: It's all about good and bad investments

It's not about capital dumping at all

Flipkart drain on Amazon forces it to up commissions
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Mahesh Murthy
Some investments are sensible and work out. Some are terrible, and don't. Can we stop the silly debate on protecting bad investments, and move on?

One wouldn't think it'd get to this. But now I see executives from two different venture capital funds (or VCs), each of whom is almost entirely funded by overseas money, asking for other overseas money to NOT be put into rivals of their investees.

Wow. Before we dive in, a little backstory.

The backstory

It started with the founders of foreign-funded Flipkart and Ola calling for a press conference to suddenly make