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BIOGRAPHY Sabeer was born in Chandigarh , India , and did his early schooling at the Jesuit school of St. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bangalore . After a brief two year stint at the Birla Institute Of Technology And Science in India, he transferred to the California Institute Of Technology where he received his Bachelor's Degree , and then went on to receive his Master's Degree from Stanford University . He worked on portable computers for Apple Computer before becoming one of the original employees at Firepower Systems , where he worked on PPC based workstation computers. Along with Apple Computer engineer Jack Smith , in 1995 he launched Hotmail, the first web-based e-mail service. A year later it was sold to Microsoft for $ 400 million. 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 as a travel portal. Currently he has started a new venture called Blog Everywhere http://www.blogeverywhere.com 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) EXTERNAL LINKS |
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