The First 26 Years of Gurbaksh Chahal’s Life
Gurbaksh Chahal, more commonly known as "G", at the age of 26, is one of the youngest and most successful entrepreneurs of our times. He is also considered to be one of the most eligible bachelors of America.
Gurbaksh Chahal was born in the town of Tarn Taran, near Amritsar in Punjab (India) to Avtar and Arjinder Chahal. In 1985, his parents received a visa for America through a lottery-based system in India. At the age of 4, he immigrated to the United States with his family and settled in San Jose, California. Gurbaksh came from disciplined background where education was compulsory, so he went to public schools all throughout his early life in San Jose, attending high school for two years, albeit soon enrolling in Accel Middle College, which allowed him to enter college while finishing his high school degree.
Chahal believed that life is all about risks and the definition of failure is only when you let fear take over your instincts. Even as a teenager, Chahal was an avid risk taker. Therefore, he chose a different route as his career path. At the age of 16, Chahal dropped out of Accel Middle College to start his first venture. Having seen the amount of money being made by prominent Internet companies of the 1990s, Chahal founded ClickAgents, one of the first online ad networks to focus on the needs of performance-based advertisers, rather than brand advertisers. Just two years later, ValueClick agreed to buy ClickAgents for $40 million in stock, making him a multi-millionaire by the age of 18.
In January 2004, at just 21-years-old, he found his second company “BlutLithium”. It was the next generation ad network focusing on data, optimization and analytics and was a pioneer of behavioral targeting. Under his leadership, BlueLithium was named one of the top 100 private companies in America and in 2006 received highest honor as Top Innovator of the Year. On September 4th, 2007, Yahoo! announced that it was acquiring BlueLithium for $300 million in cash.
After the sale of BlueLithium, Gurbaksh Chahal decided to make a list of all the different things he wanted to do outside of business. His biggest dreams were – “The Dream”, to be a part of “Secret Millionaire” and be interviewed by “Oprah Winfrey”. In November 2007, he signed up with William Morris to explore these projects (The Dream and Secret Millionaire). 2008 proved to be a very lucky year for Gurbaksh Chahal as all his dreams came true in 2008.
Not content to cool his heels after selling ad network BlueLithium to Yahoo!, founder and entrepreneurial guru “Gurbaksh Chahal” rejoined the technology game with gWallet, a new ecommerce solution. Based in San Francisco, gWallet is the next generation shopping destination for the online consumer. gWallet will help revolutionize the way consumers shop, transact, and interact with merchants.
Gurbaksh Chahal is accustomed to risk. That’s how the 26-years-old Indian American raised in San Jose built an Internet fortune for himself, and he is not going to stop taking chances any time soon.
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Gurbaksh Chahal is the founder of several companies. He is the founder of ClickAgents, BlueLithium and gWallet. You can also visit his blog (Gurbaksh Chahal - Founder of BlueLithium and Click Agents) to learn more about his past, present and future projects.
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