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Asia's Tech Titans: Paytm

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Asia's Tech Titans: Episode Three

21/04/2018 GMT

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How Vijay Shekhar Sharma, India's youngest billionaire, broke the rules and built Paytm.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, India's youngest billionaire, broke all the rules when he built Paytm, now India's second most valuable internet startup worth some $10 billion.

India's youngest billionaire broke all the rules when he built Paytm, now India's second most valuable internet startup worth some $10 billion. Coming from a lower middle-class family, Vijay Shekhar Sharma's rise to prominence is a classic rags-to-riches story. What's not so classic is what he plans to achieve. In short, Sharma not only plans to keep the company growing, he also wants to cut corruption through recorded digital transactions, bring the power of credit to a quarter of India's billion-plus population still living below the poverty line, draw more of them into the country's tax net, and in the process, build up technology infrastructure for all.

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Karishma Vaswani talks to three of Asia's most dynamic tech players.

Asia's tech entrepreneurs are increasingly giving the US tech giants a run for their money. Our Asia Business Correspondent Karishma Vaswani talks to three of the most dynamic play

Young, driven and already running multi-billion dollar businesses, the new generation of Asia's tech entrepreneurs not only want to dominate their home markets; they want to challenge the status quo, and change the way businesses are run and the way we live our lives. They are the ones that global tech giants are keeping an eye on, and they are the ones redefining ideas of just what tech companies can become, and how much they can achieve.   Over three episodes, our Asia Business Correspondent, Karishma Vaswani,  talks to three of the most dynamic players, operating in three of the biggest & fastest-growing business arenas in Asia. 

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