Vijay Shekhar Singh Sharma is an India’s famous business executive person and also founded a Online mobile payment company named as “Paytm“. Vijay Sharma is the one youngest and top billionaire in India. By using the Paytm Mobile app, we can transfer the money to/from banks and we also do payments on shopping via scanning code.
Vijay Shekhar Sharma Biography:
| Real Name | Vijay Shekhar Singh Sharma |
| Father’s Name | Sulom Prakash Sharma (worked as School Teacher) |
| Mother’s Name | Asha Sharma (House Wife) |
| Wife’s Name | Mridula sharma |
| Childrens | Son – Vivaan Sharma |
| Favorite Politician | Narendra Modi |
| Vijay Shekhar Birthday Date | 31 December 1977 |
| Vijay sharma Age | 39 years (As of 2018) |
| Born Place | Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Founder and CEO of Paytm ( Entrepreneur ) |
| Vijay Sharma Net Worth | 9000/- Cr |
| School Name | Completed schooling at the age of 14 years. |
| College Name | Delhi College of Engineering |
| Vijay Sharma Education | B.Tech in ECE |
| Vijay Sharma Hobbies | Reading books, Listen Music, River rafting, bungee jumping |
Controversies on Paytm founder Vijay Sharma:
- In the time Demonetization decision taken by Government of India, Paytm generated large amount of revenue. They raised their marketing strategies with the online payment transactions with out prior permission from the Indian government. In their Advertisement, they used Narendra Modi images for the promotions of their paytm wallet services.
- In the Paytm company annual event time, The Founer of Paytm Vijay Sharma made few headlines in a video. He Perhaps in intoxicated and makes disrespectful comments on rival companies. The video is available in YouTube also.
Unknown Facts on Paytm Founder Vijay Sharma:
- Vijay sharma completed his schooling at the age of 14 years.
- In the time of his graduation, with the Poor English of Sharma he became the butt of jokes in the college. He completed through out the education in Hindi language.
- After few months to achieve his goals he realized and learn English by using the Hindi-English translating books.
- He inspired by the founder of Yahoo Sabeer Bhatia and bunk to his college and trying to develop something innovative. Later he made a content management system with his friends.
- After graduation, Sharma joined in Multi national company, got huge salary and then he left the company started a own business venture.
- After few years Vijay sharma began One97 communications it is the parent company of Paytm. In that he targeted content, Advertising and commerce.
- The estimation of the Paytm’s value is almost $7 billions as of 2017.
- In Demonetization time, paytm increased their traffic to 435% and Paytm app download are 200%.
- Sharma is the 1567th position in the Forbes list.
- In the “India’s most powerful person of 2017” list me made the 18 place in the list.
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