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Gurbaksh Chahal | |
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| Born | July 17, 1982 |
| Occupation(s) | Founder, Chairman & CEO, BlueLithium |
| Spouse | Unmarried |
| Website | www.bluelithium.com |
Gurbaksh Chahal (born July 17, 1982) is the founder of several advertising companies.
Chahal was born in the town of Tarn Taran, 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.
Chahal went to public schools all throughout his early life in San Jose. He went to Independence High School for two years but soon after enrolled in Accel Middle College which allowed him to enter college while finishing high school.[citation needed] On December 15, 1998, at the age of 16, he dropped out of Accel Middle College to start his first venture ClickAgents. ClickAgents was an ad network focused on performance-based advertising. Two years later, on November 1st 2000, ValueClick announced it agreed to buy ClickAgents in a $40 million all-stock merger. [1] Chahal had a three year non-compete agreement with ValueClick.
On January 12 2004 Chahal founded BlueLithium, another ad network which was recognized as an innovator in the online advertising space in a Business 2.0 article. [2] Chahal is also a sought-after speaker, featured at conferences including Red Herring, JP Morgan, Bear Stearns and Ad:Tech.[citation needed]
Under his leadership, BlueLithium was named one of the top 100 private companies in America three years in a row by AlwaysOn[citation needed] and in 2006 was named Top Innovator. [3]
On September 4th 2007, Yahoo! announced that it has agreed to buy BlueLithium for $300 million in cash. Chahal remains CEO of the company through the transition period. [4] Chahal currently resides in San Jose, California.
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See also
- Indian Americans
- Indian businesspeople
- American businesspeople
- American entrepreneurs
- Businesspeople in information technology
- 1982 births
- Child businesspeople
- Living people
- Chief executives
- Innovators
- Internet personalities
- Dot-com people
- Businesspeople in software
- Silicon Valley people
- People from the San Francisco Bay Area
- Naturalized citizens of the United States