Vijay Shekhar Sharma
$1.4B
Born
Jun 07, 1978
Age
47
Source of Wealth
financial technology
Residence
Delhi,
Citizenship
India
Marital Status
Married
Children
1
Education
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Delhi University
- 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 demonetization, Paytm has notched up 400 million users and 25 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.
- Shares of Paytm have fallen steeply since its November 2021 IPO.
- Paytm is an acronym for "pay through mobile."
- Sharma dreams of starting a band that sings in Sanskrit, a language he studied in school.
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