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How A 26-Year-Old Built A $100 Million Net Worth

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Re: How A 26-Year-Old Built A $100 Million Net Worth

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Short of a weird issue with is first company. Check this out:

>And ValueClick in Westlake Village, Calif., which offers performance-based online advertising services, acquired Click Agents.com in Fremont, Calif., which offers those same services. As part of the deal, Click Agents shareholders will receive 5.3 million shares of ValueClick stock, valued at an estimated $20 million to $24 million.

>Click Agents, which has 31 employees and revenue estimated at $14 million, will initially operate as an autonomous unit of ValueClick. Gurbaksh Chahal, 26, chairman, chief executive and president at Click Agents, continues as president.

(Source: search nytimes for ClickAgents its November 8, 2000 (the url is obnoxious)).

(26 in 2000? Weird)

He likes to say $40 million since that was the value of the shares when the deal was announced. Sort of silly but that is true. However he asserts that he got some amount in between. He could of but not if he didn't own all of the shares (he could of but that would be weird since he was talking about sweat equity) or if he sold between 2001 and early 2003.

Interestingly, if he had just held those shares until May 25, 2007 he (or the shareholders collectively) would have had $173.2 million.

This didn't come up in the interview but this comes out about BlueLithium on nytimes:

>It is backed by venture capital firms including WaldenVC and 3i.

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/yahoo-buys-blue...

Given that the VCs had a portion of this venture as well as the people from Belarus that got $15 million its seems likely that G could have gotten more money by selling ValueClick's stock after holding it then doing any work in that period of time.

Re: How A 26-Year-Old Built A $100 Million Net Worth

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would it? He doesn't seem to have a very great command of language but he's got all that money so whatever. Lot's of people made a lot of money with the internet boom, pg and Mark Cuban among them. However, they are still people that did not enter the 'you cannot comment on me unless your wealth is greater than or equal to mine' club.

Because unless you're equally successful "this guy was a tool" comes across as poorly concealed envy. If you're going to trash someone who's way more successful than you are, use specifics and acknowledge his positive characteristics as well.

Obviously I have no data other than anecdotal evidence to support this claim, however, I would conjecture that the personality traits that lend themselves to acquiring wealth quickly at a young age, may also engender development of bullish personal decorum.

Re: How A 26-Year-Old Built A $100 Million Net Worth

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I used to work at Yahoo. This guy was a tool. A cursory search on Google explains all. http://images.google.com/images?oq=gurb&sourceid=chrome&...

Why are there so many photos of him without a shirt on?

You don't get to be a millionaire by throwing your money away on frivolous things like clothing for your upper body.

Re: How A 26-Year-Old Built A $100 Million Net Worth

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i'm surprised by the level of hate exhibited in these comments...sure the guy has lots of pics with no shirt & maybe he comes across as narcissistic & arrogant, but he's also a high school drop-out & the son of poor immigrants who ended up coming to our country and creating an immense amount of wealth for himself plus jobs for others... how many of us can say we've done even 10% of that? i know i can't (at least not yet)

Re: How A 26-Year-Old Built A $100 Million Net Worth

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i'm surprised by the level of hate exhibited in these comments...sure the guy has lots of pics with no shirt & maybe he comes across as narcissistic & arrogant, but he's also a high school drop-out & the son of poor immigrants who ended up coming to our country and creating an immense amount of wealth for himself plus jobs for others... how many of us can say we've done even 10% of that? i know i can't (at least not…

Success is demanding. Extreme success is extremely demanding. I don't think any of us truly know how we deal with success until we experience it. I'm not defending Chahal's arrogance, but neither can I claim to understand his perspective.
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