Sabeer Bhatia

When it comes to Entrepreneurship Sindhi have proved it on many occasions that like the field of business and trade, here also they are unmatched. Sabeer Bhatia has proved it one more time. Sabeer also proved it myth that Sindhi people can’t cope with modern technology. St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School, Bangalore, pass-out Sabeer was students of Birla Institute of Technology & Science, BITS, Pilani for his undergraduate education. Later on, Sabeer Bhatia went on to acquire M.S in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University with specialization in Ultra Low Power VLSI Design from.

Before announcing arrival of Hotmail, Sabeer Bhatia has worked for a shorter period with Apple Computer and Firepower Systems Inc. This was the day of 4 July of year 1996, the day which is symbolized and celebrated as freedom in America as it is American Independence Day, when Sabeer Bhatia along with Jack Smith set up Hotmail. This was freedom from traditional ISP-based e-mail and user was getting freedom of accessing inbox at any part of the world.

Sabeer Bhatia was born in a Sindhi family as the son of Baldev Bhatia on 30 December 1968. Father was in service of Indian army at the post of Captain and mother was working with Central Bank of India, hence from early childhood learned lessons of importance of discipline and time management which helped him a lot in future corporate life. In the year 2008 Sabeer got married with Tanya Sharma, couple has a daughter. Unfortunately, this relationship did not lost for longer as in 2013 they applied for divorce in San Francisco court.
In the 1998 Sabeer Bhatia signed a deal with Microsoft as the President and CEO of Hotmail regarding the acquisition of Hotmail by Microsoft. This deal was for an estimated $400 million. This was a quite huge deal for Sabeer Bhatia who at age of 19, arrived in Los Angeles with $250 in his pocket. Even after the deal Sabeer Bhatia worked with Microsoft till April 1999. Though it is not confirmed but Sabeer Bhatia gets involved with an e-commerce firm titling Arzoo Inc. after the leaving the Microsoft.

At the time of starting of JaxtrSMS – introduced as free messaging service and disruptive technology – Sabeer Bhatia was quite excited but till date this service is not able to produce magic of Hotmail, which has made software poster boy to Sabeer Bhatia years ago. Inventor of Ideas Sabeer Bhatia has received Entrepreneur of the Year Award from venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson in 1997. In 1998 San Jose Mercury News and POV magazine selected him as one of the ten most successful entrepreneurs. He was on TIME list People to Watch in 2002.