Negative one to zero: South Park Commons, a startup ‘unlike any other’
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South Park Commons was started in 2015 by Ruchi Sanghvi (left), who is known for being the first woman engineer at Facebook. Flipkart’s co-founder Binny Bansal (right) joined the early stage venture fund as it entered Bengaluru
Ten years ago, when Aditya Agarwal was chief technology officer and vice-president of engineering at San Francisco-based Cloud storage firm Dropbox, he happened to meet Flipkart’s co-founder Binny Bansal. What was meant to be a 45-minute meeting lasted nearly three hours.
“We went deep into everything — technology to the product Flipkart was building,” recalls Agarwal. “It was one of those meetings where you get the sense that there is a lot of potential in a relationship, and I joined the Flipkart board.”
A decade on, Bansal has joined the early stage venture fund South Park Commons,
First Published: Jun 27 2024 | 12:45 AM IST