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| name = Sabeer Bhatia
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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|30 December 1968}}<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bhatia|first1=Sabeer|title=Sabeer Bhatia downloaded|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/delhi-times/Sabeer-Bhatia-downloaded/articleshow/18682973.cms|access-date=11 April 2017|work=[[The Times of India]]|date=10 August 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100518111659/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/delhi-times/Sabeer-Bhatia-downloaded/articleshow/18682973.cms|archive-date=18 May 2010}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Chandigarh]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gibbs|first1=Samuel|title=The most powerful Indian technologists in Silicon Valley|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/11/powerful-indians-silicon-valley|access-date=11 April 2016|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=11 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411173500/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/11/powerful-indians-silicon-valley|archive-date=11 April 2016}}</ref> India
| nationality = {{flagicon|india}} [[India]]n
| occupation = [[Entrepreneur]]
| known_for = [[Hotmail.com]]
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| alma_mater = [[Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani|BITS Pilani]]<br />[[California Institute of Technology|Caltech]] (B.S., 1990)<br />[[Stanford University]] (M.S.)
}}

'''Sabeer Bhatia''' (born 30 December 1968)<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bhatia|first1=Sabeer|title=Sabeer Bhatia downloaded|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/delhi-times/Sabeer-Bhatia-downloaded/articleshow/18682973.cms|access-date=11 April 2016|work=[[The Times of India]]|date=10 August 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100518111659/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/delhi-timdownloaded/articleshow/18682973.cms|archive-date=18 May 2010}}</ref> is an [[Indian-American]] businessman who co-founded the [[webmail]] company [[Hotmail.com]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.its.caltech.edu/~e106/bios/bhatia.htm|title=Sabeer Bhatia bio|website=www.its.caltech.edu|access-date=2018-12-11}}</ref>

== Career ==
Bhatia briefly worked for [[Apple Computer]] (as a [[hardware engineer]]) and Firepower Systems Inc. He, along with his colleague [[Jack Smith (Hotmail)|Jack Smith]], set up [[Hotmail]] on 4 July 1996, [[Independence Day (United States)|American Independence Day]], symbolizing "freedom" from ISP-based e-mail and the ability to access a user's inbox from anywhere in the world{{Citation needed|date=December 2016}}

As President and [[Chief executive officer|CEO]], Bhatia led Hotmail until its eventual acquisition by [[Microsoft]] in 1998 for an estimated $400 million. Bhatia worked at Microsoft for one year after the Hotmail acquisition and in April 1999, left Microsoft to start another venture, Arzoo Inc, an e-commerce firm with Investment from Mohammed Asif, a top Indian-American banker at JP Morgan.{{Citation needed|date=December 2016}}

Bhatia started a free messaging service called [[JaxtrSMS]]. He said that JaxtrSMS would do to [[SMS]] what [[Outlook.com|Hotmail]] did for e-mail. Claiming it to be a disruptive technology, he says that the operators will lose revenue on the reduction in number of SMSes on their network but will benefit from the data plan that the user has to buy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jPy2cfze1jjm2uZialXZlYEm33hA?docId=CNG.9bdd1d5b82f023fa74048f611ee23327.801 |title=AFP: Hotmail co-founder launches free SMS service |access-date=23 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111125004357/https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jPy2cfze1jjm2uZialXZlYEm33hA?docId=CNG.9bdd1d5b82f023fa74048f611ee23327.801 |archive-date=25 November 2011 }}</ref> To date, JaxtrSMS service has failed to replicate the success of Hotmail. Recently{{When|date=December 2016}}, he invested in email collaboration software, ccZen and another e-commerce technology provider E-junkie.

==Personal life==
Bhatia is of [[Punjabis|Punjabi]] heritage.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/know/tonguetied-in-sindhi/article8418394.ece|title=Tongue-tied in Sindhi|work=The Hindu|date=1 April 2016|access-date=9 August 2016|first=Rutam|last=Vora}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tarun-sakhrani/the-sindhis-of-sindh_b_8894284.html|title=The Sindhis of Sindh And Beyond|work=Huffington Post|date=4 January 2016|access-date=9 August 2016|first=Tarun|last=Sakhrani}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/docs/Joyojeet_Pal.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413153631/http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/docs/Joyojeet_Pal.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 April 2016|title=Computers and the Promise of Development: Aspiration, Neoliberalism and 'Technolity' in India's ICTD enterprise|work=University of California at Berkeley|first=Joyojeet|last=Pal|date=30 May 2008|access-date=9 August 2016}}</ref> His father, Baldev Bhatia, was a captain in the [[Indian Army]] and his mother worked for the [[Central Bank of India]].

Sabeer married Tanya Sharma in 2008 and they have a daughter together. Later, they filed for divorce in January 2013 in a court in [[San Francisco]], citing "irreconcilable differences".

==References==
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== Further reading ==
*{{cite book |author1=Hirahara, Naomi |author2=Smith, Henrietta M. |author-link1=Naomi Hirahara |author-link2=Henrietta M. Smith |title=Distinguished Asian American Business Leaders |date=2003 |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |isbn=978-1573563444 |pages=23–26 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fN7_zps2kQUC&pg=PA23 |access-date=17 November 2019}}
* [[Po Bronson|Bronson, Po]], [https://www.wired.com/1998/12/hotmale/ "HotMale: Sabeer Bhatia started his company on $300,000 and sold it two years later for $400 million. So, is he lucky, or great?"], ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'', Issue 6.12, December 1999
* {{cite book | author = Sabeer Bhatia | author2 = Asian American Journalists Association | author2-link = Asian American Journalists Association | title = Asian-Americans & society | publisher = West Lafayette, Ind., C-SPAN Archives | year = 2000 | isbn = 9781573563444 | oclc = 51456022}}

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[[Category:Stanford University alumni]]
[[Category:American chief executives]]
[[Category:Microsoft employees]]
[[Category:American people of Sindhi descent]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian engineers]]
[[Category:21st-century American inventors]]

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