Rank #3213
Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Net worth $1.1B
financial technology · India
- Born
- Jun 07, 1978
- Age
- 47
- Source
- financial technology
- Residence
- Delhi
- Citizenship
- India
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 1
- Education
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Delhi University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Son of a schoolteacher from a small city in north India, Vijay Shekhar Sharma founded mobile wallet Paytm in 2011.
- One of the biggest beneficiaries of India's 2016 demonetization, Paytm has notched up more than 540 million users with 46 million daily active users.
- Sharma made a splash in August 2018 by getting Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway to invest $300 million in Paytm.
- In August 2025, Antfin (Netherlands), an affiliate of China's Alibaba Group, sold its entire stake in Paytm.
- Sharma dreams of starting a band that sings in Sanskrit, a language he studied in school.
- Paytm is an acronym for "pay through mobile."
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