Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Delhi, India
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Delhi University
India
financial technology, Self Made
$2,700,000,000
877
#877 Billionaires 2019
#74 India's Richest 2018
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 demonetisation, Paytm has notched up 300 million users and 12 million transactions daily. Sharma made a splash in August 2018 by getting Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway to invest $300 million in Paytm.Sharma has also created Paytm Mall, an e-commerce business and the Paytm Payments Bank.
Paytm is an acronym for "Pay Through Mobile".Fan of Bono, Chris Martin, Sharma dreams of starting a Sanskrit band, a language he studied in school.
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