Paytm's missing link

Even his staunchest critics can’t deny that Vijay Shekhar Sharma has done a stupendous job in the fintech space after he founded Paytm in 2010. Paytm is a product with high recall and used its first-mover advantage to create a new customer behaviour through an easy transaction experience and reach. In that sense, its disastrous public market debut in November has been a nasty surprise to investors — after Wednesday’s trade, the stock has eroded over half the value from the initial public offering (IPO) price of Rs 2,150.

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