Sabeer Bhatia (Punjabi: ਸਬੀਰ ਭਾਟੀਆ, Hindi: सबीर भाटिया; born December 30, 1968) is an Indian American entrepreneur who co-founded the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr.
Sabeer Bhatia was born in Chandigarh on 30 December 1968. He grew up in Bangalore and had his early education at The Bishop's School in Pune, then St. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bangalore. For a short-time he was a student at the Birla Institute of Technology (BITS), Pilani and i...
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Sabeer Bhatia (Punjabi: ਸਬੀਰ ਭਾਟੀਆ, Hindi: सबीर भाटिया; born December 30, 1968) is an Indian American entrepreneur who co-founded the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr.
Sabeer Bhatia was born in Chandigarh on 30 December 1968. He grew up in Bangalore and had his early education at The Bishop's School in Pune, then St. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bangalore. For a short-time he was a student at the Birla Institute of Technology (BITS), Pilani and in 1988 he went to US on a Caltech Transfer scholarship to get a bachelor's degree at the California Institute of Technology. He earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
After graduation, Sabeer briefly worked for Apple Computers as a hardware engineer and Firepower Systems Inc. While working there he was amazed at the fact that he could access any software on the internet via a web browser. He, along with his colleague Jack Smith, set up Hotmail on July 4th 1996.
Today, Hotmail remains the world's largest e...
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