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 cites Alibaba's founder Jack Ma and
Masayoshi Son of Softbank as his inspirations.
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 is awarded
"CEO of the Year" by the SABRE Awards, 2015 and The Economic Times Entrepreneur
of the Year, 2016.