Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the founder of mobile payments company Paytm. Sharma was ranked as India’s youngest billionaire in 2017 by the Forbes with a net worth of $2.1 billion. He cites Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma and Masayoshi Son of Softbank as his inspirations.

  • Son of a schoolteacher from a small city in north India, Vijay Shekhar Sharma founded fast-rising mobile wallet Paytm in 2011.
  • One of the biggest beneficiaries of India’s 2016 demonetisation, Paytm has notched up 400 million users and 20 million transactions daily.
  • Sharma made a splash in August 2018 by getting Warren Buffett‘s Berkshire Hathaway to invest $300 million in Paytm.
  • Sharma has also created Paytm Mall, an e-commerce business and the Paytm Payments Bank.

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