Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the founder & CEO of Paytm. He did his schooling from a Hindi medium school & completed his bachelors from Delhi Technological University. In 1997 Vijay started a website named indiasite.net & sold it for $1 million. In 2000, he started an online website One97 Communications which offered news to jokes. In 2010, Vijay founded Paytm an e-commerce payment system & financial technology company.
Achievements of Vijay Shekhar Sharma:
- In 2016, Vijay was honoured with Yash Bharati, the highest state civilian award of the Uttar Pradesh Government.
- In 2017, Vijay Sharma was a med as the youngest billionaire in India.
Motivational & Inspirational Quotes by Vijay Shekhar Sharma :
1. “If you don’t give yourself a chance, who will ? If you don’t take a chance, who will ? and I think you should take a chance on you.”
2. “I think I’ve been lucky that in my life I had to take risks without even thinking of downfalls because I did not start with a lot of things that I could have lost.”
3. “What we’ve changed in this country is that now you don’t need to actually carry a wallet, or a card, or a currency.”
From a student of a Hindi medium school to the owner of a $16 billion enterprise, the journey of Vijay Shekhar Sharma was challenging but he was optimistic & confident in his moves.