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Gurbaksh Chahal (born July 17, 1982) is one of the youngest and one of the most successful internet entrepreneurs of recent history.

Chahal was born in the city of Amritsar, in Punjab, India to Avtar and Arjinder Chahal. He emigrated to the United States at the age of 4 with his family and settled in San Jose, California. Chahal has created companies worth over $340 million by the age of 25. On December 1998, at the age of 16, he dropped out of Independence High School to start his first venture ClickAgents. [1] ClickAgents was one of the first performanced-based advertising networks in the industry. Two years later, on December 2000, he sold ClickAgents to ValueClick in a $40 million all-stock deal. [2] He was 18 years old at the time.

Chahal had a three year non-compete with ValueClick. On January 2004, he founded BlueLithium. BlueLithium was an ad network focused on data, optimization, analytics and a pioneer of behavioral targeting. He has been recognized as an innovator in the online advertising space by Business 2.0 [3] as well as a sought-after speaker, featured at conferences including Red Herring, JP Morgan, Bear Stearns and Ad:Tech. Under his leadership, BlueLithium was named one of the top 100 private companies in America three years in a row by AlwaysOn. [4]

On September 4th 2007, Yahoo announced that it has agreed to buy BlueLithium for $300 million in cash. [5]

He remains CEO of the company through the transition period. Chahal currently resides in San Jose, California.

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 Gurbaksh [[Chahal]] (born July 17, 1982) is one of the youngest and one of the most successful [[internet]] [[entrepreneurs]] of recent history.
-Chahal was born in the city  of [[Amritsar]], in [[Punjab]], [[India]] to Avtar and Arjinder Chahal. He emigrated to the United States at the age of 4 with his family and settled in [[San Jose]], [[California]]. Chahal has created companies worth over $340 million by the age of 25. On December 1998, at the age of 16, he dropped out of [[Independence High School]] to start his first venture ClickAgents. [http://www.clickagents.com/] ClickAgents was one of the first performanced-based [[ad networks]] in the industry. Two years later, on December 2000, he sold ClickAgents to [[ValueClick]] in a $40 million all-stock deal. [http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=84375&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=129263] He was 18 years old at the time.
+Chahal was born in the city  of [[Amritsar]], in [[Punjab]], [[India]] to Avtar and Arjinder Chahal. He emigrated to the United States at the age of 4 with his family and settled in [[San Jose]], [[California]]. Chahal has created companies worth over $340 million by the age of 25. On December 1998, at the age of 16, he dropped out of [[Independence High School]] to start his first venture ClickAgents. [http://www.clickagents.com/] ClickAgents was one of the first performanced-based [[advertising networks]] in the industry. Two years later, on December 2000, he sold ClickAgents to [[ValueClick]] in a $40 million all-stock deal. [http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=84375&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=129263] He was 18 years old at the time.
 Chahal had a three year non-compete with ValueClick. On January 2004, he founded [[BlueLithium]]. BlueLithium was an [[ad network]] focused on data, optimization, analytics and a pioneer of [[behavioral targeting]]. He has been recognized as an innovator in the [[online advertising]] space by Business 2.0 [http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/15/technology/disruptors_bluelithium.biz2/index.htm] as well as a sought-after speaker, featured at conferences including [[Red Herring]], [[JP Morgan]], [[Bear Stearns]] and Ad:Tech. Under his leadership, BlueLithium was named one of the top 100 private companies in America three years in a row by AlwaysOn. [http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/2718]