{"id":988442,"date":"2026-01-29T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988442"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:43:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:13:53","slug":"paytms-founder-ownership-signals-long-term-commitment-in-indias-public-tech-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/paytms-founder-ownership-signals-long-term-commitment-in-indias-public-tech-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Paytm&#8217;s founder ownership signals long-term commitment in India&#8217;s public tech space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when founder ownership across India&#8217;s consumer internet sector is steadily declining, Paytm stands out as a rare exception among large, scaled technology companies. <\/p>\n<p>Comparative ownership disclosures across listed companies and recent draft filings indicate that Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma continues to hold one of the highest equity stakes among founders of major Indian tech platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when founder ownership across India&#8217;s consumer internet sector is steadily declining, Paytm stands out as a rare exception among large, scaled technology companies. Comparative ownership disclosures across listed companies and recent draft filings indicate that Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma continues to hold one of the highest equity stakes among founders of major Indian tech platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}