He quickly became indispensable.BENGALURU: Barely 12 years ago, Ambur Iyyappa was a delivery boy with a courier company. He then joined First Flight Couriers as a delivery boy and moved to Bengaluru. Iyyappa heard from the delivery boy who managed the Flipkart account that they were looking for an in-house logistics person.So Iyyappa went to Flipkart's office and met the young founders, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal. "Iyyappa would know exactly which books were pending to be bought, which customers were waiting for delivery, etc. And our delivery partners at that time lacked the infrastructure for cash on delivery.

Source: Times of India April 15, 2017 22:30 UTC