Striving towards Excellence

-Karthik Gurumurthy

" Exactly 8 years back, BITS Pilani-Stanford Grad Sabeer Bhatia launched hotmail.com. Sabeer Bhatia‘s idea was to offer a service that could provide an E-mail link anywhere in the world. For free. In 18 months he converted $2,000 and an idea into Hotmail-a million-dollar corporation. Prior to starting Hotmail, Sabeer worked for Apple as a chip designer. In 1998, Bhatia’s Hotmail had 10 million sub­scribers worldwide growing at 60,000 per day. Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft for a sum of 400 million dollars making Bhatia, one of the quickest millionaires on the block."