East or west, we can now raise money from anywhere: Paytm's Vijay Sharma

In conversation with Deepsekhar Choudhury and Neha Alawadhi, Sharma speaks about his journey and the road ahead

Having Chinese investors does not mean the management is in some third party's control, VIJAY SHEKHAR SHARMA, managing director and CEO of One97 Communications (parent company of Paytm), told Deepsekhar Choudhury and Neha Alawadhi in an interview ahead of the company's mega IPO. Edited excerpts: 

How do you look back on your journey leading up to India’s biggest IPO?

When we started as a telecommunications services company, I had never imagined we would be doing India's largest IPO one day. Like the American Dream, I hope there is a slice of the Indian Dream as well. In the past two