- Gurbaksh Chahal
Infobox Person
name = Gurbaksh Singh Chahal
caption = Gurbaksh Chahal
birth_date = birth date and age|1982|7|17
birth_place =Taran Taran , Punjab
occupation = Entrepreneur
salary =
children =
website = [http://www.chahal.com/ www.chahal.com]
agent = William Morris Agency
footnotes =Gurbaksh
Singh Chahal (bornJuly 17 ,1982 and more recently known as 'G') is an award winning Americanentrepreneur andTV personality . He was also theFounder ,Chairman &CEO of twoadvertising companies which were sold for over $340 million.Biography
Chahal was born in the town of
Tarn Taran , nearAmritsar in Punjab,India to Avtar and Arjinder Chahal. He is of Punjabi-Sikh descent. In 1985, his parents received a visa for America through a lottery-based system in India. A year later, he immigrated to the United States at the age of 4 with the rest of his family and settled in San Jose,California . Gurbaksh is the youngest of foursiblings . [ [http://www.chahal.com Home page] , Gurbaksh Chahal's personal web site.]Business Ventures
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December 15 ,1998 , at the age of 16, started his first venture, ClickAgents. ClickAgents was anadvertising network focused on performance-based advertising. Two years later, onNovember 1 2000 ,ValueClick announced it agreed to buy ClickAgents in a $40 million all-stockmerger . [ [http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=84375&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=129263 ValueClick Acquires Click Agents] , ValueClick press release, Thompson Financial's corporate-ir.net site.] Chahal had a three yearnon-compete agreement with ValueClick. In July 2002, he opened a restaurant called Planet Bollywood in Milpitas California at the age of 20 [ [http://www.siliconeer.com/past_issues/2002/july2002.htmll#Anchor-Planet-11481 Planet Bollywood Opens] , The Silliconeer, July 2002. RetrievedSeptember 12 2008 .] .In
January 12 ,2004 , Chahal formedBlueLithium another advertising network which was recognized as an innovator in theonline advertising space in aBusiness 2.0 article. [ [http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/15/technology/disruptors_bluelithium.biz2/index.htm Big Innovations: BlueLithium] , Business 2.0,September 20 2006 .] .In 2006, under Chahal's leadership, BlueLithium was named Top Innovator by
AlwaysOn . [ [http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/2718 The 2006 AO 100] , AlwaysOn.]On
October 15 ,2007 Yahoo! bought BlueLithium for $300 million in cash. He was 25 years old at the time. Chahal remainedCEO of the company through the transition period. [ [http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=262635 Yahoo! Inc. - Press Release] ] Chahal is now working on his next start-up gWallet. [ [http://www.gWallet.com gWallet Website] Corporate Website] gWallet is a site that will allow its users to find deals on merchandise they are looking for via the internet. He currently resides inSan Francisco ,USA .References
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