Business from UP
- Gajendra Singh, CMD Saaibaba Telefilms; founder of Ganga Gauri Mahavidyalaya, Ramnagar, Baijabari, Azamgarh
- K.P. Singh, president of DLF Universal Group
- Shyama Charan Gupta, founder of Shyam Group
- Subroto Roy, founder of Sahara India
- Vinod Gupta, former CEO and chairman of InfoUSA; founder of Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- Vijay Shekhar Singh Sharma owner of Paytm
Vijay Shekhar Singh Sharma is an Indian entrepreneur and founder of mobile payments company, Paytm
Early life
Sharma was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. He cites Alibaba's founder Jack Ma and Masayoshi Son of Softbank as his inspirations.He started college at the age of 15. In 1997, while in college, started the website indiasite.net and sold it two years later for $1 million.
Career
In 2005, he started One97 Communications which offered mobile content like news, cricket scores, ringtones, jokes and exam results. One97 is the parent company of Paytm, which was launched in 2010.
In December 2015, Sharma criticised Facebook's Free Basics initiative in India, as being against the principle of net neutrality.
In 2017, Vijay Shekhar Sharma was featured in the World Billionaire's List by Forbes. He acquired the 1567th rank becoming India's youngest man to be featured on the list.
Awards
- Honoris Causa Doctorate of Sciences (D.Sc.) Degree, Amity University Gurgaon, 2016
- India Today magazine ranked him #18th in India's 50 Most powerful people of 2017 list.
Business from Bihar
- Anil Agarwal, (Vedanta Group)
- Arunabh Kumar, (CEO of TheViralFever)
- Aditya Jha
- Sanjay Jha
- Subrata Roy, (Sahara Group)
- Anil Sharma, [Amrapali Group]
- Samprada Singh
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