The Author
Gautam Sharma is the founder of SugarDaddyForMe.com (2004), which grew to over eight million total accounts and more than four million thirty-day-active members at its peak. He has been featured by name on MTV, The Tyra Banks Show, The Montel Williams Show, Good Morning America, CNN, CBS, Telemundo, Fox News, TV Land's How'd You Get So Rich? with Joan Rivers, and in a full-length CurrenTV documentary. His on-the-record quotes have appeared in The New York Times, HuffPost, the San Francisco Chronicle, Yahoo / ABC News, and Foreign Policy magazine. A Wikipedia entry exists at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SugarDaddy.com.
He is an instrument-rated pilot with approximately 800 flight hours, a professional DJ (resident at TRU Hollywood in 2014), and an inventor with two granted US patents (now expired) — in automotive blind-spot elimination and anonymous SMS communication — and one pending US patent application in quantum-entanglement-based faster-than-light communication. He is currently in talks with the Indian Department of Defense on the procurement of autonomous drone-defense laser systems he is engineering through his New Delhi consultancy, and serves as Consulting Chief Technology Officer for a pre-IPO global medical tourism corporation.
In May 2011, a SWAT team raided his Palos Verdes home. Over the next two years he was arrested over a dozen times by the same small police task force, ultimately accepting a plea deal that included five state-of-California felonies and two years of probation in exchange for zero jail time. His criminal record was expunged in full in 2024. He has not been arrested since.
He lives in New Delhi with his parents. Sugar King is his first book.