During Paytm's listing ceremony on Thursday, Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma said, "Today is the day when a commoner's surname seems like an outlier in this country." "Many of us never believed that we could have reached here," he added. Paytm's shares listed at ₹1,955 on BSE, a 9% discount over the IPO price, after India's biggest public issue.