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Vijay Shekhar Sharma is an entrepreneur and founder of Paytm. Sharma was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. He cites Alibaba's founder Jack Ma and Masayoshi Son of Softbank as his inspirations.

Sharma started college at the age of 15. In 1997, while in college, started the website indiasite.net and sold it two years later for $1 million.

In 2005, he started One97 Communications which offered mobile content like news, cricket scores, ringtones, jokes and exam results. One97 is the parent company of Paytm, which was launched in 2010.

In December 2015, Sharma criticised Facebook's Free Basics initiative in India, as being against the principle of net neutrality.

Category:Businesspeople from Uttar Pradesh Category:Living people Category:1978 births