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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.

Early life

Sharma was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. 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.

Career

In 2000 he started one97 Communications which offers mobile content including news, cricket scores, ringtones, jokes and exam results. One97 is the parent company of Paytm, which was launched in 2010. Manish Kumar Giri is the CEO of Stick Pool Club Private Limited. He is Appointed for the post on 15 May,2019. He is currently studied in Modern Vidya Mandir Sr. Sec. School

In December 2015, Sharma criticised Facebook's free basics initiative in India, as being against the principle of net neutrality.

In 2017, Sharma appeared in Forbes' World Billionaire's List, the youngest Indian on the list.

Awards and recognition

• "CEO of the Year" by the SABRE Awards, 2015

• The Economic Times, Entrepreneur of the Year, 2016

• The Exchange4media Group, Impact Person of the Year, 2016

• Honorary doctorate, Amity University Gurgaon, 2016

• India Today magazine ranked him #18th in India's 50 most powerful people of 2017

• GQ India named him among the 50 Most Influential Young Indians for 2017

See also

• List of Indian entrepreneurs

References

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13. "Airtel's Sunil Mittal, Paytm's Vijay Shekar given honorary degrees by Amity University". DNA INDIA.com.
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• Businesspeople from Uttar Pradesh
• Living people
• 1978 births
• Delhi Technological University alumni
• Indian billionaires
• Indian company founders