WHO IS THE ONE WHO DOES NOT KNOW ENGLISH, HE MADE (PAYTM) APP

 

VIJAY SHEKHAR SHARMA  

 

"Small town boy, who did not even know English, is now earning billions in the country's biggest IPO" One of the most popular mobile apps in the country. It has become the preferred app of the people for digital payments. You will find this app present in most of the people's smartphones. Now the IPO of this company is also coming. This will be the biggest IPO in the country. But do you know that the person who started it, Vijay Shekhar Sharma comes from a very simple family of a small town. There was a time when only Rs 10 was available in his pocket. 43-year-old Vijay Shekhar Sharma's company Paytm has raised $ 2.5 billion, or about one trillion 34 billion rupees, through an initial public offering (IPO). Finance-tech company Paytm has now become one of the most famous companies in India and also an inspiration for new industrialists. He says that for a long time his parents did not know what their son was doing. He says, "Once my mother read about my property in a Hindi newspaper and asked me if you really have that much money." Forbes magazine has estimated the wealth of Vijay Shekhar Sharma at $ 2.4 billion, or about 1.25 trillion rupees in Indian rupees. Sharma, the son of a school teacher father and homemaker mother, hails from a small town in Uttar Pradesh. In 2017, he became India's youngest billionaire. The name of Vijay Shekhar Sharma, who came out of a small village in Aligarh, comes in the list of billionaires of the force today.

Education 

Vijay Shekhar Sharma was born in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh. His father was a school teacher and mother was a housewife. Vijay Shekhar did his early studies from a Hindi medium school in Harduaganj, a small town in Aligarh. He was only 14 years old when he passed class 12th, which was an achievement. After which he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering.Vijay Shekhar Sharma did not know how to read and write English. He completed his schooling in Aligarh in Hindi only. He started learning English with the help of books, old magazines and his friends. She learned English so well that only a few students studying with her knew. For this, he used to read Hindi and English versions of the same book together. However, it took time. Sharma, who was always the top of the class, started lagging behind the others. At one point he got so upset that he stopped going to college. He used this time of college to become an entrepreneur. He wanted to go to Stanford University, but could not because of lack of financial resources and challenges in English. He learned to code himself. Started Content Management System with his college mates. Some big news publications started using it. He also started his first job in a multi national company at this time. However, he left that job after six months and formed his own company with his friends.

Career

Vijay Shekhar had created a website named indiasite.net during his engineering studies in 1997, and sold it for lakhs of rupees. After which he established one97 communication ltd in the year 2000. In which news like cricket match score, jokes, ringtone and exam results were told. This one97 communication ltd is the parent company of Paytm.

Demonetisation opened luck 

Paytm started a decade ago. Then it was only a mobile recharge company. But when Uber made this company its payment partner in India, Paytm's fortunes changed. But the dice turned for Paytm in 2016 when India suddenly one day banned large notes and promoted digital payments. and promoted digital payments.