2. EARLY LIFE ON EDUCATION
Vijay Shekhar Sharma was born in Aligarh, Uttar
Pradesh on 15 July 1978, the third of the four
children of Sulom Prakash, a school teacher, and
Asha Sharma, a homemaker.[7][8] He did his
schooling from Harduaganj, a small town near
Aligarh.[9] He was a child prodigy, beginning his
college life at the age of 15 and graduating as an
engineer with a B.Tech degree from the Delhi
College of Engineering (now Delhi Technological
University) when he was 19 years old [10][11]
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3. CAREER
In 1997, while in college, he started the website
indiasite.net, and sold it two years later for US$1
million.[13][14] Three years later, in 2000, he
started One97 Communications [15] which
offered mobile content including news, cricket
scores, ringtones, jokes and exam
results.[14] One97 Communications Limited is the
parent company of Paytm, a digital payments
and financial services company which was
launched by Sharma in 2010.[16] In November
2021, Paytm went public raising $2.5 billion at a
valuation of $19 billion, making it India's
largest initial public offering at that time.[17]
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![EARLY LIFE ON EDUCATION
Vijay Shekhar Sharma was born in Aligarh, Uttar
Pradesh on 15 July 1978, the third of the four
children of Sulom Prakash, a school teacher, and
Asha Sharma, a homemaker.[7][8] He did his
schooling from Harduaganj, a small town near
Aligarh.[9] He was a child prodigy, beginning his
college life at the age of 15 and graduating as an
engineer with a B.Tech degree from the Delhi
College of Engineering (now Delhi Technological
University) when he was 19 years old [10][11]
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