Indian billionaire was once 'unmarried' because of low salary 2
`In 2004 – 2005, my father wanted me to close the company and get a job with a salary of 30,000 rupees,` Sharma told Reuters.
`The potential girls’ families didn’t call us back after learning that I only earned about 10,000 rupees a month,` Sharma said. `So I became an unqualified bachelor.`
Paytm Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma.
Last week, he made an IPO for Paytm – India’s leading payment company.
Sharma was born into a family with a teacher father and a housewife mother in a small city in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
`For a long time, my parents didn’t understand what their son was doing,` Sharma said in a 2015 interview, when Alibaba’s Ant Group invested in Paytm, `Only when my mother read about the property
SoftBank and Berkshire Hathaway are also two fairly early investors in Paytm.
Paytm is a pioneer in digital payments in India.
The participation of global giants made Sharma a little skeptical.
Son then told Sharma to `just raise more capital and double your efforts`, putting all his energy into building the payment service.
Although many analysts are concerned about Paytm’s ability to become profitable, Sharma remains confident in the company’s success.
`My dream is to bring Paytm to San Francisco, New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. When people see it, they will say ‘That’s an Indian company,’` Sharma said.
