Sabeer Bhatia is an entrepreneur who is mostly known as founder of Hotmail email service. Besides Hotmail, he is also the founder of Jaxtr.
Sabeer Bhatia |
- Sabeer Bhatia was born in Punjab (India) on 30 December, 1968.
- Tough he was born in Punjab, He grew up in Bangalore.
- Sabeer has got his primary education from The Bishop's School in Pune and from St. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bangalore.
- He had done his B.S degree from California Institute of Technology and M.S. degree on electrical engineering from the Stanford University.
- Sabeer started his career at Apple computers as a hardware engineer. During that time he got the idea of Hotmail.
- The idea of Hotmail came to their mind when a firewall at apple stops the email he was using to communicate with his co worker Jack Smith.
- He started Hotmail with his friend Jack Smith on July 4, 1996.Hotmail was the first web based email serviceand it took little time to get popular.
- In 1998 Microsoft bought Hotmail.
- Sabeer Bhatia has got many awards.He got entrepreneur of the year award in 1997 byDraper Fisher Jurvetson.TIME named him as a "People to Watch” in international business in 2002.
Quick Facts About Sabeer Bhatia
Name: | Sabeer Bhatia |
D.O.B: | 30 December,1968 |
Family: | wife: Tania Sharma |
Education; | California Institute of Technology (B.S., 1989) Stanford University (M.S.) |
Famous for: | Founder of Hotmail |
Profession: | Entrepreneur |
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