Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Founder & CEO · Paytm
📍 Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Vijay Shekhar Sharma built Paytm around the shift from cash and recharge services toward mobile and QR-based payments.
Electronics and Communications degree from Delhi College of Engineering.
Internet entrepreneur and founder of One97 Communications before Paytm became a major payments platform.
The growing use of mobile phones created an opportunity to simplify recharges and everyday payments through a digital platform.
Consumer trust, competition, regulation, public-market pressure and the complexity of operating across payments and financial services.
Mass adoption of QR merchant payments helped Paytm move from recharge utility to a much broader fintech ecosystem.
Built one of India's most recognized digital-payments brands and a large merchant payment network.
Expand payments, merchant services, financial products and AI-led efficiency.
Build for local behaviour, keep adapting to regulation and never assume that scale can replace trust.