Vijay Shekhar Sharma is an Indian technology entrepreneur, born on June 7, 1978, in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. He earned a B.Tech degree from Delhi College of Engineering (now Delhi Technological University).
In 1997, while still in college, he launched the website indiasite.net, which he sold for US$1 million two years later. In 2000, he founded One97 Communications, a company that initially offered mobile content such as news, cricket scores, and ringtones.