Profil Financier
Vijay Shekhar Sharma occupe actuellement le rang #2521 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur services). Fortune nette estimée : $1.6 B (-$15 sur 24h).
Son of a schoolteacher from a small city in north India, Vijay Shekhar Sharma founded mobile wallet Paytm in 2011.
One of the biggest beneficiaries of India's 2016 demonetization, Paytm has notched up more than 540 million users with 46 million daily active users.
Sharma made a splash in August 2018 by getting Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway to invest $300 million in Paytm.
In August 2025, Antfin (Netherlands), an affiliate of China's Alibaba Group, sold its entire stake in Paytm.
Sharma dreams of starting a band that sings in Sanskrit, a language he studied in school.
Paytm is an acronym for "pay through mobile."