VIJAY SHEKHAR SHARAMA

INDIA’S YOUNGEST
BUSINESS TYCOON
PAYTM
VIJAY SHARMA
• BORN :ALIGARH ,UTTAR PRADESH ,INDIA

• NATIONALITY: INDIAN

• ALMA MATER:DELHI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

• OCCUPATION: FOUNDER AND CEO OF PAYTM AND One97

COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
PAYTM
i. TYPE : PRIVATE
ii. INDUSTRY : INTERNET
iii. FOUNDED : 2010
iv. FOUNDER : VIJAY SHEKHAR SHARMA
v. HEADQUARTERS : NOIDA , INDIA
vi. AREA SERVED : INDIA
vii. KEY PEOPLE : HARINDER,TAKHAR
viii. SERVICES : E-COMMERCE
ix. WEBSITE : PAYTM.COM
PAYTM
• PAYTM IS INDIAN E-COMMERCE SHOPPING WEBSITE
HEADQUARTERED IN NOIDA ,INDIA, LAUNCHED IN 2010. IT IS OWNED
BY One97 COMMUNICATIONS

• THE FIRM STARTED BY OFFERING MOBILE RECHARGING ,ADDING BILL

PAYMENTS AND E-COMMERCE ,WITH PRODUCTS SIMILAR TO
BUSINESS SUCH AS FLIPKART, AMAZON.COM, SNAPDEAL.

• IN 2015,IT ADDED BOOKING BUS TRAVEL.

VIJAY SHEKHAR SHARMA
• VIJAY SHEKHAR SHARMA IS AN INDIAN
ENTREPRENEUR AND FOUNDER OF PAYTM. SHARMA
WAS BORN IN ALIGARH ,UP IN A MODEST
FAMILY.SHARAM CITIES ALIBABA’S FONDER JACK
MA AND MASAYOSHI SON OF SOFTBANK AS HIS
INSPIRATIONS.
• IN DECEMBER 2015,SHARMA CRITISED FACEBOOK’S
FREE BASICS INITIATIVE IN INDIA, AS BEING
AGAINST THE PRINCIPLE OF NET NEUTALITY.
 EARLY LIFE

HE FACED DIFFICULTY IN HIS

STUDIES AT DELHI COLLEGE OF
ENGINEERING BECAUSE HE DID
NOT SPEAK ENGLISH.IN
1997 ,WHILE IN COLLEGE
SHARMA STARTED WEBSITE
INDIASITE .NET AND SOLD IT TWO
YEARS LATER FOR $1 MILLON.
 PAYTM FOUNDER,VIJAY SHEKHAR
SHARMA’S INCREDIBLE LIFE STORY

VIJAY SHEKHAR OWNS A COMPAMY WHOSE CURRENT VALUE IN A

LITTLE OVER $3 BILLON IN THE MARKET IN 2016, A DREAM DREAMT
WHENN HE WAS STRUGGLING TO MAKE END MEET WITH RS 10 IN
POCKET. BUT HE TASTED VICTORY THE HARD WAY. NOTHING CAME EASY
FOR HIM.
LIFE TESTED HIM RIGHT FROM THR
BEGINNING OF HIS JOURNEY TO BECOME
ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN
THE BUSINESS WORLD TODAY. THROUGH HE
PASSED HIS HIGHER SECONDARY WHEN HE
WAS JUST 14 YEARS OLD, ACHILD PRODIGY
OF SORYS, MAKING IT THROUGH COLLEGE
WAS THR FIRST TOUGH CHALLENGE HE
FACED WHEN HE LEFT THE COSY COMFORT
OF HIS SMALL HOMETOWN OUTSIDE
ALIGARH AND VENTURED INTO THE REAL
WORLD.
• WHEN HE BEGAN One97, THE PARENT COMPANY OF PAYTM. THEY
STARTED EXPERIMENTING WITH THE THREE BASICS OF
INTERNETCONTENT ,ADVERTISING AND COMMERCE. BUT THE BIG
EUREKA MOMENT CAME IN 2011 WHEN HE FIRST PITCHED THE IDEA
OF ENTERING THE PAYTMENT ECOSYSTEMIN FRONT OF HIS BOARD.
THE BOARD WAS NOT COINVCED AS HE WAS TALKING ABOUT
BETTING THE COMPANY’S MONEY ON A NON-EXISTENT MARKET.

• SO HE PUT 1% WITH BELIEF THAT THE FIRST AVTAR OF PAYTM ,PAY

THROUGH MOBILE,WAS BORN,GOING RAPIDLY ONTO BECOMING THE
NEXT BIG THING ON THE STARTUP ECOSYSTEM IN INDIA . AND , SINCE
THEN IT WAS NEVERLOOKING BACK.
THANK YOU