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Vijay Shekhar Sharma

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Nationality
  
Indian

Organization founded
  
Paytm

Spouse
  
Mridula Sharma (m. 2005)

Children
  
Vivaan Sharma

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Alma mater
  
Delhi College of Engineering (now Delhi Technological University)

Occupation
  
Founder & CEO of Paytm and One97 Communications Limited

Education
  
Delhi Technological University (1994–1998)

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Vijay Shekhar Sharma is an Indian entrepreneur and founder of Paytm. Sharma was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. He cites Alibaba's founder Jack Ma and Masayoshi Son of Softbank as his inspirations.

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Vijay Shekhar Sharma How Vijay Shekhar Sharma started Life of Paytm39s founder

Sharma started college at the age of 15. In 1997, while in college, started the website indiasite.net and sold it two years later for $1 million.

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In 2005, he started One97 Communications which offered mobile content like news, cricket scores, ringtones, jokes and exam results. One97 is the parent company of Paytm, which was launched in 2010.

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In December 2015, Sharma criticised Facebook's Free Basics initiative in India, as being against the principle of net neutrality.

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Awards

  • Honoris Causa Doctorate of Sciences (D.Sc.) Degree, Amity University Gurgaon, 2016

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    Vijay Shekhar Sharma Wikipedia
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