Accordingly the life story of Vijay Shekhar Sharma, 40, is no less than a feature film. Meanwhile from being a son of a school teacher hailing from a small city in northern parts of India to becoming the richest and the youngest billionaire of India, his journey is truly an inspiration for most of us.
Furthermore he founded India’s most used mobile wallet, Paytm, in 2011 to make the payments system in India more digital and easily accessed on mobile. As per report presently he owns a stake of 16% in the company and to add to his expertise, he is the man behind the creation of Paytm Mall and Paytm Payments Bank.
Earlier Paytm has around 250 million registered users and 7 million transactions are carried out by people daily. Further every single thing has been enrolled on this app, be it mobile recharge, booking movie tickets, recharging metro cards, or donating for a social cause (Kerala floods), you can do everything with just one click. Moreover Sharma was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh and his early education was in a Hindi medium school.
Apparently he cites Alibaba's founder Jack Ma and Masayodhi Son of Softbank as his inspirations and also started college at Delhi College of Engineering at the age of 20. In 1997, while in college, he started the website indiasite.net, and sold it two years later for $1 million. Reportedly Sharma was ranked as India's youngest billionaire in 2017 by the Forbes with a net worth of $2.1 billion.
