Sabeer Bhatia (सबीर भाटिया) is a co-founder of Hotmail and an entrepreneur. Hotmail is a free webmail e-mail service, which is accessible via a web browser. ... An entrepreneur (a loanword from French introduced and first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon) is a person who operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks. ...

Biography

Sabeer Bhatia was born in Chandigarh, India in 1968. His father, Baldev Bhatia, started as an officer in the Indian Army and later joined the Indian Ministry of Defence, while his mother, Daman Bhatia, was a senior official at the Central Bank of India.^[1] Bhatia was schooled at the St. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bangalore. He started his undergraduate education at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, BITS, Pilani and transferred to Caltech after two years at BITS. After graduating from Caltech, Sabeer went to Stanford to pursue his MS in Electrical Engineering. At Stanford, he worked on Ultra Low Power VLSI Design. , Chandigarh   (Punjabi: , Hindi: , pronunciation: ) also called The City Beautiful , is a city in India that serves as the capital of two states: Punjab and Haryana. ... St. ... For other uses, see Bangalore (disambiguation). ... Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India (popularly known as BITS Pilani) is one of the premier technology schools of India. ... California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (commonly known as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ...

At Stanford, he was inspired by entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs and Scott McNealy eventually deciding to become one himself. Instead of pursuing a PhD after his Masters, he decided to join Apple. Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. ... Scott McNealy holding Suns new UltraSPARC T1 processor, unveiled on November 14, 2005. ... Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ... Apple Inc. ...

Founder of Hotmail

After a brief stint at Apple, Sabeer joined a startup company called Firepower Systems Inc, where he spent two years. At this point, Sabeer started working on new ideas for the Internet and he teamed up with Jack Smith, a colleague from Apple Corporation. Jack Smith, along with Sabeer Bhatia, founded the web-based free e-mail service Hotmail, in 1995. ...

The two came up with the concept of a web-based database entitled Javasoft. While pursuing this idea, they subsequently realised the potential of a web-based e-mail system and thus decided to create one called HoTMaiL (the uppercase letters spelling out HTML - the language used to write the base of a webpage).In order to attract attention, the e-mail service was provided for free and revenue was obtained through the advertising on the website. Draper Fisher Ventures invested $300,000 on the project and the service was launched on July 4, 1996. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. ... is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...

In less than six months, the website attracted over 1 million subscribers. As the interest in the web-based email provider increased, Microsoft eventually took notice and on December 30, 1997, Hotmail was sold to Microsoft for a reported sum of $400 million. Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ...

Other ventures

After selling Hotmail, Bhatia worked at Microsoft for about a year and in April 1999, he left the company to start another website, Arzoo Inc, which was shut down when the dot-com bubble burst. In 2006, he relaunched Arzoo as a travel portal. This article is about the year. ... Dot-com (also dotcom or redundantly dot. ...

He started (alongside co-founders Shiraz Kanga and Viraf Zack) BlogEverywhere, a website attempting to capitalise on the emerging blogosphere. Blogosphere is a collective term encompassing all blogs and their interconnections. ...

He also pushed for a project enabling access to the internet through cable television in Indian homes. However, due to bureaucratic problems it is very unlikely that this will reach completion. Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house. ...

Future plans of his include the development of a new city in India by the name of Nanocity. The aim of Nanocity is to replicate the vibrance and eco-system of innovation found in the Silicon Valley. For the Nintendo 64 game, see Space Station Silicon Valley. ...

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)

References

External links

• Interview in the Business Standard March 14, 2006
• P O Bronson's Book Nudist On the Late Shift . contains a fascinating chapter on Sabeer Bhatia's life in Silicon Valley and his story of funding, bootstrapping & selling Hotmail to Microsoft.
• Why Did Bhatia Walk Away From Bill Gates? Rediff - April 13, 1999