Vijay Shekhar Sharma was born in 1978 and holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering. In 1997 while still in college, he started the website indiasite.net which he sold for $1 million two years later. In 2000, he started One97 Communications which later became Paytm, now with over 400 million users conducting 25 million daily transactions. In 2018, Warren Buffett invested $300 million in Paytm, and Sharma is now worth $1.3 billion, being named India's youngest billionaire in 2017 and acting as a UN patron for clean air initiatives.