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Vani Kola

8 Nov, 8 tweets, 4 min read

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1/ There are few companies that fundamentally change consumer behavior.

@Flipkart re-defined how we shop. @zomato changed the way we ate. @Olacabs did so with how we commute. However, the most significant shift was to the way we transacted.

@Paytm pioneered digital payments.

@vijayshekhar

2/ @vijayshekhar is an unconventional entrepreneur who proved that heart and effort can take you to dizzying heights of success and glory. He has become iconic to Indian #entrepreneurship.

3/ PayTM started as One97 Communications Limited in 2000. For years they offered mobile content, messaging, commerce services, and made-to-order network applications and became India’s leading Mobile Value Added Service Company.

4/ In 2010, Vijay Shekhar Sharma recognized the potential to work on commerce transactions and made the pivot into PayTM.

5/ Initially pivoting into a mobile recharge and bill payments company, PayTM is now a full-stack digital payments platform with over 150 million monthly active users and over 1.2 billion payment transactions processed on the platform.

6/ Spurred by demonetization in 2016, PayTM was at the forefront to serve a primarily cashless society that had to adopt digital payments for the first time. Strong first-principles thinking and visionary #leadership from the top led to their incredible success.

7/ PayTM's IPO made me reflect on the maturity of our ecosystem over the last decade and how much we have to be proud of.

Congratulations Vijay Shekhar Sharma on this incredible milestone. You have paved the path for several entrepreneurs and companies emerging out of India.

8/ As we see more startup IPOs, we will see greater confidence in the #India opportunity.

This will be the decade of Indian startups.

#Fintech #Startups #Payments #PaytmIPO

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Alexander's last 3 wishes. A thread.

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