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 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.
Unknown & Interesting Facts about Vijay Shekhar Sharma :
1. Sold a website for $1 million
In 1997 Vijay started a website named indiasite.net & sold it for $1 million.
2. Youngest Billionaire
Vijay Sharma was the youngest billionaire by Forbes magazine in 2017 with a net worth of $1.3 billion.
3. Learned English through songs
Vijay completed his schooling at a Hindi medium school. He practised English by memorizing songs.
4. Honours
In 2016, Vijay Sekhar Sharma was honoured with the Yash Bharati, the highest state civilian ward of Uttar Pradesh.
These were some of the facts about Vijay Shekhar Sharma.