GWallet's Chahal Balances Flashy Lifestyle, Family Commitment
While running his third startup, an entrepreneur known for talk-show appearances and swank parties keeps close to his lower-key relatives
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In 1997, a year before he dropped out of high school, Gurbaksh Chahal wrote a letter to himself as part of a school assignment. His goals: caring for his family and becoming a doctor.
A decade later, his parents called to say the school had sent the letter. Chahal, now 27, never made it to medical school; that was his parents' dream, he says. Instead, he launched an entrepreneurial career that has netted two sizable sales of companies he started and has set the table for a third.