Gurbaksh "G" Chahal - Secret Millionaire (FOX) in HD Episode. Part 4 of 5.

FOX Secret Millionaire, Gurbaksh Chahal goes undercover to San Francisco's Tenderloin District. Part 4 of 5.

Gurbaksh Singh Chahal (born July 17, 1982) is an American entrepreneur, author and TV Personality. He was the Founder, Chairman & CEO of two advertising companies which were sold for over $340 million.

Chahal was born in the town of Tarn Taran, near Amritsar in Punjab, India to Avtar and Arjinder Chahal. He is of Punjabi-Sikh descent. In 1985, his parents received a visa for America through a lottery-based system in India. A year later, he immigrated to the United States at the age of 4 with the rest of his family and settled in San Jose, California. Gurbaksh is the youngest of four siblings.

On December 15, 1998, at the age of 16, he started his first venture, ClickAgents. ClickAgents was an advertising network focused on performance-based advertising. Two years later, on November 1, 2000, ValueClick announced it agreed to buy ClickAgents in a $40 million all-stock merger. Chahal had a three year non-compete agreement with ValueClick.

In January 12, 2004, Chahal formed BlueLithium another advertising network which was recognized as an innovator in the online advertising space in a Business 2.0 article.

In 2006, under Chahal's leadership, BlueLithium was named Top Innovator by AlwaysOn.

On October 15, 2007 Yahoo! bought BlueLithium for $300 million in cash. He was 25 years old at the time. Chahal remained CEO of the company through the transition period. [6] Chahal is now working on his next start-up, gWallet, a site intended to allow users to find deals on merchandise they are looking for via the internet.

Chahal appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show to discuss his childhood and business journey. He also starred in one episode of the FOX philanthropic reality show Secret Millionaire, where he went undercover in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, California to give away at least $100,000 of his own money. He is shown donating $90,000, but has written that other donations (which raised the total above $100,000) were "left out on the editing room floor."

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[josephL82]

Dang, this guy gave his own money? People like him do exist? Awesome.

[devDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD]

Friends remember "G" before you make fun of an Indian... He did us proud

[nemesis1ization]

@blattdanielmain another jesusfreak!!lol

[blattdanielmain]

"Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven." Matthew 6:1

[simonh505]

I love this show but the UK version is a bit better simply because it's less about building dramatic tension. It's less about trying to make it into a tv drama and more just about showing what goes on. But glad to see the american version is helping worthy causes too :)

[MajorYT]

@josephL82 Yes. Michael Jackson gave more than $300M of his own money to charities but we don't hear that, what we hear is negative and false bs.

[mouson1984]

@dopeyton according to the wikipedia information of the secret millionaire, "Although the minimum required donation is $100,000, during the Episode 4 airing with millionaire Gurbaksh Chahal only $90,000 was shown (two $35,000 donations & two $10,000 donations). However, the total donations exceeded $100,000 and also included a birthday fund and computer lab. Chahal was the pilot episode for the US series"

[dhami95]

Rememebr him as not jsut an indian but a punjabi

[SHYBONER]

@uiwi MILLIONS HE HAS WORKED HARD FOR... NOT EVERYONE ACHIEVES $340 MILLION YOU KNOW...

[SHYBONER]

@josephL82 I BET HE CLAIMED IT IN HIS TAXES THOUGH... HAHAH

[dopeyton]

this is weird. he's got 100k to give away, he gave 35k each to the eatery and the home. 10k each to two diff ladies. what bout the last 10k????