Gurbaksh Chahal
Gurbaksh Chahal founded
ClickAgents, BlueLithium and RadiumOne. In 2010, he was named one
of the Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs by BusinessWeek. In 2012, he received two
Light of India Awards: People's Award for Excellence in Business Leadership and
Amrapali Award for Entrepreneur of the Year.
On July 17, 1982 Gurbaksh Chahal was born in India. On December 15, 1998, age 16, Gurbaksh Chahal dropped out of high school to work on ClickAgents, an advertising network focused on performance-based advertising. Two years later, ClickAgents was sold for $40M. On January 12, 2004, age 21, Gurbaksh Chahal founded another advertising network: BlueLithium. Three years later, BlueLithium was sold to Yahoo for $300M. In September 2009, Gurbaksh Chahal started his 3rd advertising company and in 2010, the company was renamed RadiumOne. In March, 2012, Radium One’s value was over $500M. He said his proudest moment was seeing the look in his father’s eyes when he told his father he sold his second company for $300M in cash. What surprised me:
Only 16, Gurbaksh Chahal dropped out of high school to work on ClickAgents and in just 2 years, ClickAgents was sold for $40M. Very impressive. He said his proudest moment was seeing. his father’s surprised look when he told his father he just sold his second company for $300M, which is really sweet.
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