Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Vijay Shekhar Sharma 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 was in the list of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2017.Education and career
He completed his bachelor's degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering . In 1997, while in college, he started the website indiasite.net, and sold it two years later for $1 million.
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.
In 2017, Sharma appeared in Forbes' World Billionaire's List, the youngest Indian on the list. He cites Alibaba's founder Jack Ma and Masayoshi Son of Softbank as his inspirations.
