A community leader and long-time advocate, George Chahal is committed to creating good new jobs, growing our middle class and supporting the most vulnerable, and helping make our city more inclusive and representative of all its citizens.
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His girlfriend told arriving officers that she was unable to breathe and that Chahal had told her four times, "Iβm going to kill you," San Francisco Officer Anh Nguyen told the San Francisco Business Times in March. βShe stated she was in fear for her life.β
Chahal, 31, faces no jail time. He was sentenced to three years' probation, 52 weeks in a domestic violence training program and 25 hours of community service. The Internet mogul was arrested in August after police responded to a 911 domestic violence call at his San Francisco penthouse apartment.
Chahal was born to Avtar Singh and Arjinder Chahal, a nurse in Tarn Taran Sahib, a city in India βs Punjab state on July 17, 1982; he was the youngest of four children. In 1985, during the aftermath of the Khalistani insurgency, his parents emigrated to the United States, his father having won a green card lottery.
Chahal proclaimed his innocence but nevertheless entered into a no contest plea to one charge of domestic violence battery and one charge of battery.
Chahal founded his first advertising network at an age of 16 and two years later, became a millionaire after selling it to ValueClick at nearly $40 million. In 2004, he co-founded BlueLithium, which went on to become the fifth largest ad-network in USA, before being sold to Yahoo in a $300 million deal.
His family were devout followers of Sikhism. At age 16, Chahal dropped out of Independence High School to pursue a career in Internet advertising; his parents wished him to be a doctor, and Chahal has since noted this to be the biggest risk-prone decision taken in his career.
He is also a motivational speaker, advocates one-dollar salary for CEOs, and has written an autobiography called The Dream. During the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic, Chahal became a vocal critic of governments and urged them to update their monetary policies in order to salvage their economies.
The family lived in a one-bedroom apartment in San Jose , California. His father got a job in the Postal Service; his mother worked as an assistant to a nurse. He has two elder sisters β Nirmal and Kamal, and an elder brother Taj Chahal; the latter two had worked with Chahal in his ventures.
It had liaisoned with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to provide employment scopes for rural women in Maharashtra, India. In 2019, Chahal committed to evolving Punjab as the next tech capital of India, and create over a million jobs for the youth populace by 2030 through suitable investments.