Vijay Shekhar Sharma

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The leading mobile payments company is benefiting from rapid demonetization in India

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The Paytm crew: “We are raising a lot of money on the e-commerce side,” says founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma (left); VP Amit Sinha (center) and CFO Madhur Deora. BY HARICHANDAN ARAKALI Samsung Electronics sells its phones through about 150,000 authorized shops in India. And Paytm Mall, through a collaboration with Samsung that started [...]

When India demonetized 86% of the country's paper currency at the end of 2016, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma cashed in big time with his Alibaba-backed commerce platform. Today, the 38-year-old is valued at $1.3 billion, making him India's youngest billionaire.

Paytm’s 38-year-old CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma is getting rich leveraging his digital payment platform to take advantage of India’s demonetization. Paytm’s daily transactions have tripled to 8 million since demonetization was announced in November 2016.

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