Sabeer Bhatia
Sabeer Bhatia is a co-founder of Hotmail.
Biography
Sabeer was born in Chandigarh, India, and did his early schooling at the Jesuit school of St. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bangalore.
After a brief two year stint at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India, he transferred to the California Institute of Technology where he received his Bachelor's degree, and then went on to receive his Master's degree from Stanford University. He worked on portable computers for Apple Computer before becoming one of the original employees at Firepower Systems, where he worked on PPC based workstation computers.
Along with Apple Computer engineer Jack Smith, in 1995 he launched Hotmail, the first web-based e-mail service. A year later it was sold to Microsoft for $400 million.
After the Hotmail acquisition, Bhatia worked at Microsoft for about a year and in April 1999, he left to start another venture, Arzoo Inc, which was shut down when the Dot-com bubble burst. In 2006 he relaunched Arzoo as a travel portal.
Currently he has started a new venture called Blog Everywhere http://www.blogeverywhere.com
Awards
- "Entrepreneur of the Year," Awarded by the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (1997)
- Named to the "Elite 100," Upside magazine's list of top trendsetters in the New Economy
- Recipient of the "TR100" award, presented by MIT to 100 young innovators who are expected to have the greatest impact on technology in the next few years
- Selected by the San Jose Mercury News and POV magazine as one of the ten most successful entrepreneurs of (1998)
- Named by TIME as one of the "People to Watch" in International Business (2002)
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