Inspiration and Entreperneurs

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                   Gurbaksh Chahal 
is one of the youngest entrepreneur to take over the internet, his story is an inspiration to anyone that wants to pursue a career in business, he is an example that you can achieve anything with hard work and determination and that its not about where you came from but its about where you are heading, he defeated all odds and at the age of 18 he had a 6 figure bank account.

was born in India in July 17 1982, when he was still young his family received a Visa to America and at the age of 4 they settled in San Jose California. In 1998 at age 16 Gurbaksh dropout of high School to pursue his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. The first company that he established was ClickAgents, this was an advertising agent that focuses on performance based advertisement, two years later he sold the company for  $40 million, this made Gurbaksh Chahal a millionaire at age 18.


He later started a company that focuses in the behavioral targeting of banner advertising, this company was called Blue Lithium, in 2006 Blue Lithium was named top innovator by AlwaysOn, in 2007 Yahoo bought Blue Lithium for $300 million in cash but Chahal still remains the CEO of the company.

In 2009 Chahal started his 3rd venture which he named gWallet, an advertising company that specializes in bringing brands into social media, the same year gWallet raised $12.5 million from Adan Street Partners and various other places. In 2010 the company re branded itself as RaiumOne, in 2011 RadiumOne was valued at $200 million


Chris Gardner

Chris Gardner was born in 1954; he is a motivational speaker, stockbroker, entrepreneur, philanthropist and a philosopher in his own right, he has acquired a lot of success and wealth in the past years in such a way that you won’t believe that at a stage in his life he was homeless and had no money to support his son

 
Gardner was very afraid and lonely as a child, his father lived far away from him and his mother was always in and out of prison causing Gardner and his sister to constantly be in and out of  foster care, Gardner's childhood was very dark and painful. His early adulthood started well, in 1977 Chris Gardner got married to Sherry Dyson, in 1981 they son was born and all seemed to go well, but that would all change, in a blink of an eye his marriage fell apart and his wife left him with his son, Gardner had no money so he went to the shelter (where homeless people stay) and lived there with his son.

Soon he had a life changing encounter, there was a white guy parking his Ferrari so he asked the white guy what he does for a living and the white guy replied that he is a stockbroker, Chris Gardner signed up for the internship and he worked twice as hard and he eventually got the job as a stockbroker, this opened a lot of doors for Mr. Gardner because he started his own brokerage and saw a great amount of success.
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                                             Joseph Semprevivo

Joseph Semprevivo was born on November1 1971 in New Jearsey, at the age of 9 he was diagnosed with diabetes, this was very sad news for the 9 year old because this meant that there were certain types of food that he couldn't indulge in due to his medical problem.

life was tough for young Joseph because he was diabetic, this meant that he couldn't eat certain treats that children enjoyed eating due to his problem. Joseph didn't like the fact that there was certain foods that he couldn't eat so in 1983 he created a sugar free ice-cream which he sold at his parents restaurant. the ice-cream was an instant hit so the restaurant soon became a sandwich and ice-cream restaurant and Joseph was very happy because he could now eat what he loved without harming his health.

As a young adult Semprevivo found a new interest and that was cookies, so he left his ice-cream business and decided to make sugar free cookies.The cookie business proved to be a great success and Joseph found himself in meetings with adults twice his age, he was meeting with 50 year old Harvard MBA's and big players in the entrepreneurial world. He was determined to be the best even at a young age, he worked twice as hard and constantly looked for better ways to improve his business and product. he has since expanded to 13 flavours of cookies, the line is now in 37 countries and it reaches over 125,000 stores in the US, he has also sold over $100 million worth of cookies. This is a story of a young boy that turned tragedy into triumph


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