Vijay Shekhar Sharma

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Vijay Shekhar Sharma
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Sharma in 2019
Born (1978-06-07) 7 June 1978 (age 46)
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Alma mater Delhi College of Engineering (B.Tech)
OccupationBusinessman
Known forFounder & CEO of Paytm
Spouse
Mridula Parashar
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(m. 2005)​
Children1
Awards Yash Bharati

Vijay Shekhar Sharma (born 7 June 1978) is an Indian technology entrepreneur, multimillionaire and business magnate. He is the founder and chief executive officer of One97 Communications founded in 1997 and its consumer brand Paytm which he started in 2010. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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In January 2022, the ICANN-supported Universal Acceptance Steering Group appointed him as UA Ambassador in India. [5] As of September 2022, he had a net worth of US$1.1 billion according to Forbes . [6]

Early life and education

Vijay Shekhar Sharma was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh on 7 June 1978, the third of the four children of Sulom Prakash Sharma, a school teacher, and Asha Sharma, a homemaker. [7] [8] He did his schooling from Harduaganj, a small town near Aligarh. [9] He enrolled in college at the age of 15 and graduated with a B.Tech degree from the Delhi College of Engineering (now Delhi Technological University) at 19 years old [10] [11] [12]

Career

In 1997, while in college, he started the website indiasite.net, and sold it two years later for US$1 million. [13] [14] Three years later, in 2000, he started One97 Communications [15] which offered mobile content including news, cricket scores, ringtones, jokes and exam results. [14] One97 Communications Limited is the parent company of Paytm, a digital payments and financial services company that was launched by Sharma in 2010. [16] In November 2021, Paytm went public raising $2.5 billion at a valuation of $19 billion, making it India's largest initial public offering at that time. [17]

Sharma is also an angel investor who has supported tech startups. [18] [19]

Sharma joined the board of management at Netaji Subhas University of Technology in Delhi for three years. [20]

In 2024, Sharma stepped down from his role as part-time non-executive chairman and board member of Paytm Payments Bank. This decision followed regulatory challenges encountered by the bank with the Reserve Bank of India. [21] [22]

Awards and recognition

Personal life

He is married to Mridula Parashar Sharma [37] and they have a child. [38] He cites Alibaba's founder Jack Ma and Masayoshi Son of Softbank, as his inspirations. [39] In February 2022, Sharma was arrested by Delhi police for hitting his car into the car of a police officer. He was later released on bail. [40]

Other work

Sharma has been named as the UN Environment's 'Patron for Clean Air', where he helps to drive environmental action and awareness and advocate for the goals of United Nations Environment's global Breathe Life campaign. [41] [42]

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