Paytm’s founder and CEO is Vijay Shekhar Sharma. He attended a Hindi medium school and earned his bachelor’s degree from Delhi Technological University. Vijay founded and sold the website indiasite.net for $1 million in 1997. In the year 2000, he launched the online website One97 Communications, which featured everything from news to jokes. Vijay founded Paytm, an e-commerce payment system and financial technology company, in 2010.
Here are the top quotes by Vijay Shekhar Sharma:
- If you don’t give yourself a chance, who will? If you don’t take a chance, who will? and I think you should take a chance on you.
- I think I’ve been lucky that in my life I had to take risks without even thinking of downfalls because I did not start with a lot of things that I could have lost.
- What we’ve changed in this country is that now you don’t need to actually carry a wallet, or a card, or a currency.
- There are two kinds of companies in the world one is who BUILD and the second who BUY.
- I don’t even know English, But here I am as the youngest Indian Billionaire.
- I don’t need to sleep; I am living a dream.
- The Uber of India is Uber. The Google of India is Google. I can sign it on a wall that the Paypal of India will not be Paypal.
- If you’re up against a big guy, ignore the big guy.
- You are what your situations make you.
- I feel like I am in my teens and Paytm is my infatuation.
- When you are hiring, hire them for your vision. Tell them what dream you have and the like-minded will get attracted to it and will join you.
- If you’re not the customer, don’t build it.
- Searching for a business model is equivalent to searching for God.
- As unique you are, you’re part of a crowd.
- The problem with big guys is that they’re not hustlers.
- The big giants (companies ) with the deep pockets (money) never win the war. Microsoft didn’t win the search war. Search didn’t win the social war. Social didn’t win the messaging war.
