6) From being a topper in the first bench, he slowly started moving backwards as far the benches were concerned and moved out of the class after sometime. All the teachers speaking in English pissed him off and took his interest off studies and slowly diverted him towards computers and he had finally found his love!
7) “There was a time when I didn’t have money to even have dinner. There were days I would walk 14 kilometers so that I save Rs 14 so that next day I can have a (meal). Having two cups of chai was a big perk in winter for me,” Vijay recollects. I doubt if he really has do anything of sorts now.
8) After completing his course at Delhi College of Engineering in 1998, he started a website named indiasite.net, which he later sold for Rs.5 Lakh.
9) “I reached a stage where I needed money badly and I had to sell 40 per cent of Paytm for Rs 8 lakh cash so that I could justify to parents that I am not blowing up money,” says Vijay. Now this is something every entrepreneur in India goes through. They have to show up some money to their parents to prove that they are doing something with their life. Imagine the value of that 40% this present day.
10) Talking about money, these few lines said by Vijay are probably the best way to round off. “Money doesn’t matter. Money is not even a milestone, money is not even a mean, money is not even an absolute journey ambition, money is a check box that you have to tick so that you get a chance to talk to Rahul Kanwal on the stage sometime,” Vijay jokes. He later added on a serious note that one certainly needs money get an opportunity to bring the change that you want to bring in the world.
