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Gurbaksh Chahal: The desi uncle’s nightmare

By: Santosh :+: Under: Brown in America, Business
On: ⋅ December 1, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

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Somewhere in the background the desi uncle goes: “Beta, get high marks, attend college and become a doctor/engineer. Then only you will be successful in life”

That may be true, unless you’re Gurbaksh Chahal. [link]

Gurbaksh or “G” as people call him, dropped out of high school at 16 and created a start-up.

At 16 he ended his high school/college education and embarked on his first venture. In 1998, Chahal started the company ClickAgents, an online ad network that focused on advertisers based on performance rather than brand name.

Then he sold it for a neat sum, …

His risky venture paid off when two years later he sold the company to ValueClick and became a multi-millionaire at the young age of 18.

became one of the youngest executives in corporate America, …….

He worked as an executive at ValueClick, making him the youngest executive at a multi-billion dollar NASDAQ-listed company

ended up creating another start-up which was bought by Yahoo! ….

On September 4, 2007 Yahoo! Inc., one of the leading Internet companies in the world, announced it was planning to acquire BlueLithium for $300 million in cash. The sale was completed on October 15, 2007. The recent deal to sell the company to Yahoo! Inc. has given Chahal a net worth of over $100 million.

and is now working on a reality show for TV.

Chahal is not satisfied with stopping there, however. He is currently working on completing his book entitled, appropriately enough, “The Dream.” He is also working on developing a reality-TV show that will have the same name as his book.

And oh, by the way, he is still in his mid-twenties. Somewhere in the background, the desi uncle goes: “We always knew Gurbaksh beta was destined to do great things even though he never went to college”.

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