PhonePe Success Story and Marketing Strategy – The landscape of digital payments has changed drastically ever since the demonetization at the end of 2016. For the unversed, PhonePe is a digital wallet and online payment app that allows users to pay bills, transfer money, invest in mutual funds and gold, buy life insurance and make instant payment to your favorite online and offline stores via wallet or UPI.

In this blog post, we will take a look at the journey and success story of PhonePe; the marketing strategies that have led to its overwhelming success, the names of the individuals/companies that are funding its operations and what the future looks like for them.

PhonePe Founders

3 faces have been an integral part of PhonePe, including:

1) Sameer Nigam

Sameer Nigam laid the foundation of PhonePe in 2015. He is serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the company as of September 2021. Prior to PhonePe, Sameer Nigam served as the SVP Engineering and VP Marketing at Flipkart.

2) Rahul Chari

He is presently serving as the Chief Technology Officer at PhonePe. Mr. Chari has 20+ years of experience spanning embedded systems, e-commerce platforms, enterprise software development and apps.

3) Burzin Engineer

Burzin Engineer is working as the Chief Reliability Officer at PhonePe. Boasting an experience of over 20 years, he has built web scale infrastructure and led multiple engineering projects at PhonePe including running and building the company’s web serving layer, cloud systems, network, CDN and storage.

PhonePe Journey and Timeline

Here is a list of all the accolades and achievements that PhonePe has garnered since its launch:

2015

PhonePe was founded

2016