Vijay Shekhar Sharma is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the founder and chief executive officer of financial technology company Paytm. He was ranked as India’s youngest billionaire in 2017 by Forbes with a net worth of $1.3 billion.
Vijay Shekhar Sharma (born 1978) 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.
He started college at Delhi College of Engineering at the age of 16.
In 1997, while in college, he started the website indiasite.net, and sold it two years later for $1 million.