Biography of Sabeer Bhatia:founder of Hotmail

Sabeer Bhatia is an entrepreneur who is mostly known as founder of Hotmail email service. Besides Hotmail he is also 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 service and 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 by Draper 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