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with a net worth of $1.3 billion, he is India’s youngest billionair­e. He introduced the concept of mobile wallets to Indians and also made it to the Time’s 100 most influentia­l people in the world, the only other Indian on the list being Narendra Modi. Paytm is the largest mobile wallet company with 250 million account holders; he wants to scale it to 500 million by 2020

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Paytm was one of the biggest beneficiar­ies of demonetisa­tion. Its traffic increased by 435 per cent while its app downloads grew 200 per cent

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as of May 2017, Paytm’s valuation was at $7 billion and he accomplish­ed this within the last decade. He was quoted in an interview as saying that the valuation could go up to $12 billion

DID YOU KNOW? He loves speed, in cars and work, is passionate about all genres of music, and considers Jack Ma of Alibaba to be his guide

 ?? BANDEEP SINGH ??
BANDEEP SINGH

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