At 17, he was already making $300,000 per month off his very own company – an Internet advertising business with an office located in his bedroom. He was too young to drive a car to meet clients for business meetings, so he took cabs instead. At the risk of losing credibility, Chahal was careful not to reveal that he was a high school dropout to possible investors. This portion of his story took place a decade ago; imagine how much more he's accomplished in the years since.
Today, Chahal is a 27-year-old entrepreneur who has successfully started and sold two companies, with another company in the works.
Featured as one of the best young tech entrepreneurs of 2010 by Bloomberg Businessweek, Chahal – or “G”, as friends like to call him – sold his first business, Click Agents, for $40 million, two years after its inception. He was a millionaire by the age of 19. He then started another company, BlueLithium, which he sold three years later to Yahoo for the hefty sum of $300 million. While other entrepreneurs will usually settle for two successful ventures under their belt, Chahal continues to push forward with gWallet, a digital payment business.
Seen as a role model for youth, the young millionaire’s advice to others is to sacrifice. Unlike other entrepreneurs who can attribute success to luck, Chahal chooses to reflect on the things he had to give up in order to achieve his spectacular success. He had to put in years of hard work, persistence, and faith. The support of Chahal's family is also a key; having been allowed to drop out of high school in order to pursue a start-up venture is not an insignificant factor in his story.
Clearly, Chahal has made a prominent name for himself as a venture capitalist despite his youth.