These lines changed the life of Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma
NEW DELHI: For a billionaire whose company's valuation is now around $5 billion, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and CEO of One97 Communications, parent company of Paytm, four lines on poverty changed his life forever.
Talking at the India Today Conclave on Friday, Sharma said, "Poverty in India is an asset, which sometimes our countrymen love to play with."
He learnt while studying in class X, in a small town in Aligarh, UP, that you have to change the the existing state of affairs to remove poverty.
Sharma said these lines changed his life, Mein gareebi hun; main tumhe pyar karti hu ; mai tumhe chood nahin sakti , kyunki tum mujhse jyada pyar karti ho ( I am poor; I love you; I can't leave you, because you love me more than I do).
Talking about his remarkable story from rags to riches, he said Indian financial system penalises the honest and rewards the dishonest to take loan and leave the country without paying. He added that initially he paid 24 per cent rate of interest on the loan he had taken to fund his startup.
Talking at the India Today Conclave on Friday, Sharma said, "Poverty in India is an asset, which sometimes our countrymen love to play with."
He learnt while studying in class X, in a small town in Aligarh, UP, that you have to change the the existing state of affairs to remove poverty.
Sharma said these lines changed his life, Mein gareebi hun; main tumhe pyar karti hu ; mai tumhe chood nahin sakti , kyunki tum mujhse jyada pyar karti ho ( I am poor; I love you; I can't leave you, because you love me more than I do).
Talking about his remarkable story from rags to riches, he said Indian financial system penalises the honest and rewards the dishonest to take loan and leave the country without paying. He added that initially he paid 24 per cent rate of interest on the loan he had taken to fund his startup.
