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Vijay Sharma:
An Indian Billionaire Businessman and the Founder of Mobile
Payments Company Paytm
aytm is India’s largest by empowering the lives that we journey to success for the young
leading payment gateway touch. boy.
Pthat offers comprehensive Our Approach: We intend to 1. His English proficiency came in
payment services for customer reach every inch of the country the way of getting into IIT: Owing
and merchants. We offer mobile and en-route, empower small to his poor English proficiency,
payment solutions to over 7 million enterprises. We commit to operate Vijay couldn’t sit for the IIT
merchants and allow consumers to in an economically, socially and entrance and other competitive
make seamless mobile payments environmentally responsible exams. Later in college, he had to
from Cards, Bank Accounts and manner. We hope to use our simultaneously read two books —
Digital Credit among others. We influence to garner financial & one in Hindi, the other in English
pioneered and are the leader of QR other support for disaster victims to understand the course material.
based mobile payments in India. & the underprivileged. We do our 2. From a topper in school to
With the launch of Paytm Payments best to compensate negative effect back-bencher in college: Vijay
Bank, we aim to bring banking on the environment. We wish to passed out of Delhi College of
and financial services to half-a- share our technical knowledge Engineering at an early age of 19.
billion un-served and under-served with the deserving to empower His English proficiency meant he
Indians. Our investors include them. We believe in providing could hardly understand what was
Softbank, SAIF Partners, Alibaba equal opportunity for all our taught in class. This led him to
Group and Ant Financial. We strive people, as well as those whom we spend a lot of time in the Computer
to maintain an open culture where come across in our course of work. Room, browsing the internet and
everyone is a hands-on contributor Intellect behind Paytm dreaming about being in Silicon
and feels comfortable sharing ideas Valley, the mecca for worldwide
and opinions. Our team spends Vijay Shekhar Sharma is an innovation.
hours, designing each new feature Indian billionaire businessman. He
and obsesses about the smallest of is the founder of mobile payments 3. A startup in college: While most
details. company Paytm. From being a of young and bright engineering
graduates were excited about the
small-town boy from Aligarh
Our Vision: “A company is worth who bought second-hand tech prospect of being placed, Vijay
the company it keeps.” – Vijay magazines to the founder of one had built his first company- ‘XS
Shekhar Sharma of India’s most trusted technology Communications’, a college-
We are on the road to making an brands, Vijay Shekhar Sharma has based startup that created Content
enormous impact to the economic come a long way. Management Systems. By then, he
foundation of the country. We Vijay was an exceptional student, had learnt to code all by himself
want millions to accompany us passing secondary school at the and had designed a Content
and benefit from this journey. We early age of 14. However, this Management System that was
want to make a positive difference would only be the start of a long being used by several major
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