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Gurbaksh Chahal Biography

Gurbaksh Chahal is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on July 17, 1982 in Tarn Taran Sahib, India. He was an interviewer as a guest on He was a guest on Oprah Winfrey‘s syndicated talk show.’s syndicated talk show.

Gurbaksh Singh Chahal (born July 17, 1982) is an Indian-American internet entrepreneur who founded several internet advertising companies.

In 1998, Chahal founded ClickAgents, an advertising network focused on performance-based advertising, on the lines of DoubleClick. By 2000, it had numerous customers and had a staff-strength of 34. It was acquired by ValueClick in November 2000 in an all-stock deal valued at nearly $40 million, which paid his parents’ mortgages lifting them out of poverty and made him an overnight millionaire.

He was a resident of San Francisco and was voted one of the best males in the world in the world by Men’s Health in 2009.

He was named America’s most eligible bachelor in the show Extra TV, the tabloid television news channel in 2009.

Chahal was born to Avtar Singh and Arjinder Chahal, a nurse in Tarn Taran Sahib, a city in India’s Punjab state on July 17, 1982; he was the youngest of four children. In 1985, during the aftermath of the Khalistani insurgency, his parents emigrated to the United States, his father having won a green card lottery. Chahal emigrated the following year, at age four. The family lived in a one-bedroom apartment in San Jose, California. His father got a job in the Postal Service; his mother worked as an assistant to a nurse. He has two elder sisters — Nirmal and Kamal, and an elder brother Taj Chahal; the latter two had worked with Chahal in his ventures. His family were devout followers of Sikhism.

Gurbaksh Chahal Net Worth

Gurbaksh is one of the richest Entrepreneur from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gurbaksh Chahal's net worth $200 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

He was born living in San Jose and dropped out of high school to be able to work full-time.

In 2009, Chahal founded RadiumOne, another online ad company of a slightly different genre, which started as a loyalty and rewards program but later, migrated to targeted-advertising domain, having acquired multiple social-media-centered startups. It garnered significant reputation for its patented ad-technology with Chahal being poised to be a billionaire, and was valued at about US$500 million at its peak. In 2014, the company failed to move on with IPO, as Chahal plead guilty to domestic violence. In 2017 it was purchased by RhythmOne for US$22 million.

In 2010, Bloomberg Businessweek named him among the 15 best young entrepreneurs of the year. In the same year, Chahal’s alma mater Evergreen Valley College awarded him with an Honorary Degree in Business Administration and Pace University conferred the Leaders in Management Award and a Honorary Doctorate in Commercial Sciences; he had earlier established an endowed entrepreneurial scholarship program over the university. In 2012, Complex magazine put him in a list of the 25 richest entrepreneurs under the age of 30; in the same year he received the Light of India Amrapali Young Achievers award. In 2013, he was named as one of the Ernst and Young entrepreneurs of the year and the following year, Complex noted him among the top 10 technology entrepreneurs of the year. In 2019, Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee honored him for contributions made to the field of entrepreneurship. Chahal has been a guest lecturer at several universities including London School of Economics, UC Berkeley et al.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Chahal founded his first advertising network at an age of 16 and two years later, became a millionaire after selling it to ValueClick at nearly $40 million. In 2004, he co-founded BlueLithium, which went on to become the fifth largest ad-network in USA, before being sold to Yahoo in a $300 million deal. Chahal has since founded other internet-based companies including RadiumOne and Gravity4. He is currently the CEO of RedLotus.

Who is Gurbaksh Chahal Dating?

According to our records, Gurbaksh Chahal is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of January 13, 2024, Gurbaksh Chahal’s is not dating anyone.

In 2010, Bloomberg Businessweek named him among the 15 best young entrepreneurs of the year. In 2012, Chahal was enlisted among the 25 richest entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by Complex magazine. In 2013, he was named as one of the entrepreneurs of the year by Ernst and Young.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Gurbaksh Chahal height 5 ft 8 in Gurbaksh weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

In 2004, Chahal co-founded BlueLithium, a company that specialized in behavioral targeting, a technique whereby web users’ habits online are tracked in order to show customized ads. The ad-tech industry praised it with Business 2.0 noting it to be among the 11 most disruptive innovations of 2006, and by the same year, it had expanded operations to foreign countries, having purchased AdRevolver. MingleNow, a social network was simultaneously launched, which was accorded a partnership deal by Anheuser-Busch. It was named among the top 100 private companies of America by AlwaysOn for three consecutive years and in 2007, Yahoo! bought it for $300 million in cash; Chahal remained CEO during interim period. It was the fifth largest ad-network in USA and second largest in UK, at time of sale.

Chahal has attracted attention for his physique and extravagant lifestyle including a fleet of luxurious cars and a penthouse apartment. He has been featured over Fox Business and CNBC’s High Net Worth and has been invited as an guest over The Oprah Winfrey Show. He has been also featured over The Secret Millionaire, where he went undercover in San Francisco and gave away $110,000 of his wealth, The Bonnie Hunt Show, where he auctioned off his pen for charity, and on ExtraTV as America’s most eligible bachelor. In 2011, Men’s Health awarded him the seventh spot in the list of the world’s fittest and richest men.

Facts & Trivia

Gurbaksh Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Gurbaksh Chahal celebrates birthday on July 17 of every year.

In 2012, after the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting, he committed US$1 million to found BeProud (since renamed to Chahal Foundation), a charitable foundation that supports the families of hate crime victims and combats child trafficking in India. It had liaisoned with Church of the Latter-Day Saints to provide employment scopes for rural women in Maharashtra, India. In 2019, Chahal committed to evolving Punjab as the next tech capital of India, and create over a million jobs for the youth populace by 2030 through suitable investments. In 2020, Chahal donated face masks, test kits, personal protective equipments and ventilators to hospitals across several countries (including Hong Kong and India) during the Coronavirus pandemic, and extended procurement networks to help governments in mitigating the supply-chain chaos.

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