Vidit Aatrey, CEO of SoftBank-backed e-commerce startup Meesho, joins billionaire club as shares jump 74% post IPO listing

SoftBank-backed e-commerce firm Meesho’s co-founder and CEO, Vidit Aatrey, joined India’s billionaire club on Monday, December 16, 2025, after the company’s shares jumped over 74% following their IPO, according to the BSE website.

Vidit Aatrey joins India’s billionaire club

On Monday, the company's share price jumped 74% to hit the intraday high level of ₹193.50 apiece during the trading session, raising the executive's wealth in the company.

As Meesho IPO hit the Indian stock market, it marked a share premium of 53.56% to ₹170.45 on the NSE, above the ₹111 per share upper price band of the public issue on 10 December 2025.

On the BSE, the shares made their debut at a premium of 53.33% or at ₹170.20 per share.

According to Meesho’s latest shareholding disclosure, co-founder and CEO Vidit Aatrey holds a 10.12% stake in the company, or about 45.65 crore equity shares, according to BSE data.

On December 16, 2025, Aatrey’s stake was valued at over ₹8,834 crore, taking him into India’s billionaire club. Earlier, Mint reported that he sold 1.6 crore shares through Meesho’s IPO under the offer-for-sale route, raising nearly ₹177.6 crore at the issue’s upper price band.

While Aatrey’s exact net worth is not publicly known, the stock’s surge and shareholding details point to the scale of his wealth. Meesho shares were trading 5.62% higher at ₹180.35 on Tuesday, compared with ₹170.75 at the previous close, as per BSE data at 3:08 pm IST.

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Who is Vidit Aatrey?

An IIT Delhi alumnus, Aatrey began his career at ITC in 2012, moved to InMobi in 2014, and founded Meesho in 2015, where he has served as CEO since. He holds a BTech in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi and has also completed programmes at Y Combinator.

Meesho co-founder Sanjeev Kumar owns a 6.64% stake, or about 29.97 million shares, valued at over ₹579.87 crore as of Monday’s session. Like Aatrey, Kumar also sold 1.6 crore shares through the IPO’s offer-for-sale component.

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