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Paytm: Building a Payments Network

By: Sunil Gupta, Das Narayandas and Rachna Tahilyani
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  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:21
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Abstract

By January 2017, Paytm, a mobile payments company that started in 2010, became India’s largest mobile payments platform with over 142 million users and $5 billion valuation. Could Paytm become a $100 billion company its founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma envisioned it be?

Keywords

Mobile Payments; Ecommerce; Mobile App; India; Entrepreneurship; Expansion; Service Operations; Mobile and Wireless Technology; E-commerce; Service Industry; India

Citation

Gupta, Sunil, Das Narayandas, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Paytm: Building a Payments Network." Harvard Business School Case 517-091, January 2017. (Revised May 2019.)
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Sunil Gupta

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Das Narayandas

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