who is the owner of paytm vijay shekhar?

 Vijay Shekhar Sharma is an Indian entrepreneur who launched Paytm. Sharma was born on 15 July 1978 in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh. He completed his maternal education from Engineering College, Delhi.

Sharma was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. He cites Alibaba founder Jack Ma and SoftBank's Masayoshi son as his inspirations. He started college at the age of 15. In 1997, when in college, started the website indiasite.net and sold it two years later for $1 million.

For higher education, he took admission in Delhi College of Engineering, here he came to English, since he had studied in Hindi medium school, he had to face a lot of trouble here due to lack of English, but because of not knowing English. He didn't let his self-confidence weaken from

Vijay belonged to a middle class family, he knew the importance of money, when he was studying, he also started a business with a friend during his studies, then later sold it to the American company Lotus Interworks. Diya and started working in his own company, this made him a lot of profit, after about a year he left the job of this company to do something different.

After leaving the job, he started a new company named One97, but it did not work well, he had to face a lot of losses in a year, the condition became so bad that he had to work hard to save every penny. Was. He used to walk on foot to save the bus fare. Sometimes the whole day was spent only on two cups of tea, even no one was ready to get married, meanwhile he used to go to people's house and do computer repair work.

When it comes to saving every single penny, the holiday money was very important in Vijay's life, but he saw that whether it was an auto dealer, a shop owner or a rickshaw, he had to worry a lot for the holiday money and from here his The idea came to mind to make Paytm. Paytm started in 2010

His investors include Jack Ma and Ratan Tata, owner of China's renowned e-commerce company Alibaba. Talking about his journey full of struggles, Vijay Sheikh said, 'It doesn't matter where you come from. All you need is passion, either you will stay inside or you will be outside.

Shekhar is the father of a son and according to him maturity comes with increasing age. By the way, recently he jumped from the plane to try his courage. Apart from this, he is also fond of taking the risk of investment in new businesses.

Business Journey:

Vijay used this free time to learn software coding. Vijay's business journey started during his college days when he along with friends created a content management system indiasite.net in which investors had invested money. Two years later, Vijay acquired One97 Communications Ltd. from the $1 million he earned from selling it. Opened a company providing mobile value added service named. One97 Communications Ltd. Provides variety of content like exam results, ringtones, news, cricket scores, jokes for mobile.

America's 9/11 tragedy had such an impact on the market that so many businesses were destroyed overnight and One97 Communications Ltd. He also fell victim to it. Big companies like Paytm's customer Hutch and Airtel were not able to make payments on time. Salary to his staff, employees Vijay gave money loan from friends, relatives at an interest rate of 24% per annum.

Vijay's money had run out and he had to sacrifice many facilities in his personal life as well. Vijay left the car and started traveling by bus-auto but did not stop dreaming because the secret of winning is not to lose courage. When the money crunch increased, Vijay started working as a consultant at one place.

Prize

Honoris Causa Doctor of Sciences (DSc) Degree, Amity University Gurgaon, 2016

  India Today magazine ranked him #18 in India's 50 Most Powerful People of 2017 list.

GQ India named him among the 50 Most Influential Young Indians for 2017