Sabeer Bhatia, better known as the founder of Hotmail, was born in Chandigarh, in 1968. He did his schooling from St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School, Bangalore. He graduated from Caltech and went to Stanford to pursue his MS in Electrical Engineering.
After completing his Masters, his first job was at Apple computers. He teamed up with his partner to create a web-based e-mail system called Hotmail which become a hugely successful email application. Microsoft bought Hotmail on December 30th, 1997, for a reported sum of $400M. After the success of Hotmail, Bhatia in 1999, started another venture, Arzoo Inc, which however had to be shut down in 2006, later, Arzoo was relaunched as a travel portal.
Sabeer Bhatia has won several honors and awards. The major awards include: “Entrepreneur of the Year,” awarded by the venture capital firm (1997); and “TR100” award, presented by MIT. He was also named by TIME as one of the “People to Watch” in International Business (2002).
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