I know its an old news but i came across it once again and wanted to share it with you all who dont know...


Sabeer Bhatia founded Hotmail

Biography

Sabeer was born in Chandigarh, India, and 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.

It was at Stanford, that he was bitten by the "entrepreneurship" bug. He attended many a brown bag lunch to hear entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs and Scott McNealy. These lunches inspired him to become one himself. Instead of pursuing a PhD after his Masters, he joined Apple computer.


Founding Hotmail
After a brief stint at Apple, Sabeer joined a startup called Firepower Systems Inc, where he spent two years. At this point, Sabeer started working on new ideas on the Internet, which instinctively knew was going to become universally used. Sabeer teamed up with his partner Jack to explore different ideas. One of the earlier ones was a web-based database idea called Javasoft. While pursuing this idea, the two of them hit upon the idea to create a web-based e-mail system which they would call Hotmail. In order to get big fast (GBF), they decided to give the service away for free and make money by way of advertising. They were able to raise a small sum of $300k from Draper Fisher Ventures which later became Draper Fisher Jurvetson. They launched the service on July 4, 1996 and in less than six months grew to over 1 million subscribers. At this point, they knew that they were on to something big. Sure enough, Microsoft took notice when their subscriber base crossed 7 million. On December 30th., 1997, they sold Hotmail to Microsoft for a reported sum of $400M. This acquisition started the Dot-com craze that lasted 2 1/2 years.

After the Hotmail acquisition, Bhatia worked at Microsoft for about a year and in April 1999, he left to start another venture, Arzoo Inc, which was shut down when the Dot-com bubble burst. In 2006 he relaunched Arzoo at http://www.arzoo.com as a travel portal.

Currently he has started a new venture called BlogEverywhere http://www.blogeverywhere.com with co-founders Shiraz Kanga (cut-off in the above picture) and Viraf Zack.

He latest passion is to build a new city in India called Nano city at www.nanocity.in. In Nanocity, he aims to replicate the vibrance and eco-system of innovation found in Silicon Valley.

Dai this is back in the mid 90's news ... Still thanx for sharin' .... had forgotten some parts of it ...

Welcome to 1995......... Idiot

A very old news!!!!

i told its a old news... dont attack me.. trust me, one fellow will come and say thanks for the info

probably cmhoneyf.... he has a standard reply to everything...!!!

lol, u might also have a censor / filter, which will not let any text from ur machine without their is a vulgar word attached.. hahaha or maybe the script will just add some bittu

Hey Really for me i don't know guys, thx for sharing da dhil.

dai thanks for saving me da

wow da..amazing info...i never knew this..thanks a lot da mama...you rock...dhil rocks..... MY FOOT !

dai as a clever man said, you can read about the clever man below :
that those who have learned it, learn once again and be patience cause their is others who dont know.. everybody does not have all informations.. its good to share knowledge even if its old and known...

the clever man is none other than dhil

I am going to post a thread saying.....



Do you know that Bill Gates is the richest man in the world?

hehehe actually he is not the richest man in the world...the richest person in world is Ikea

Dhil u r F$cked in da head now .... finally i deduced after u mentioned IKEA is the richest man ... IKEA that swedish furniture giant is not there amongst the top 10 also now dude .. Age 'ol thingz u r sayin' ... here check it the next predicted richest man in da world is This Indian man .. Lakshmi Mittal, the world if afraid that they gotta have a third world country man as the richest soon ... Coz this guy was nowhere in the scene till 3 yrs back and all of sudden he came in the top 20 .... anwayz .. check the linik below .... Now dont' tell me that u won't follow this list az Forbes is the best for these kinda thingz ..

http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

U dumb F$%^ dhil, that was last in 2005. Last year's list he is not even there in the top 5. Mittal has reached no.4 though.

Here you go....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_billionaires_%282006%29

ikea is a women ... hehe
next i am not much into this stuff... i didnt know u guys are so much busy knowing what others are doing and who is the richest person and stuff.. GET A LIFE

Dude again u r wrong ... the founder of IKEA is Ingvar Kamprad a swede ... Check the below link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA

And IKEA stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunaryd, and this is a freakin' guy unless u know of him changin' his sex sometime unaware to the rest of da world and also hez an old hag now .... anwayz ... u gotta get a life .. coz life is all 'bout knowledge and knowledge is power ... If u don't improve then i'll have to warn u again Dhil .... Don't mess with da best or u'll die like da rest ....

hahaha i am happy i dont read these news flashes stuff . i gotta life dont care who is the worlds richest man until its me..
igvar is a danish name aswell as swedish.. and its a women name.. sorry my bad.. maybe swedish people like female names

so dhil's ass has been in kicked at all sides...poor dhil

pavan dont play too smart da.. orelse i will break ur neck