Sabeer Bhatia was a prodigy who ended up working at Apple at just 25 years old; His work with the Californian company was short-lived, as he decided to found Hotmail with another former employee of the company.
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Having an @hotmail.com domain in your email is synonymous with having grown up between the 90s and 2000s. This protocol, still in force even if it no longer accepts new accounts, was born from the minds of two Apple engineers from the 90s: Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith.
He first came up with the original idea while working on the complex circuits of PowerPC Macs. The idea was nothing less than to create Hotmail and revolutionize email, even if they didn’t know it right away. Nor that Microsoft would make him a millionaire.
Young Indian landed in the United States thanks to a scholarship
On the penultimate day of the year 1968, December 30, Sabeer Bhatia was born in Chandigarh, one of the largest cities in North India. But he did not stay there for long since he moved at a very young age with his family to Bangalore, in the south of the country.
Those who knew Bhatia as a child reported that he already showed great interest in the IT sector, which was little explored at the time. Not only was he enthusiastic, but he also managed to translate this enthusiasm into his studies, to the point that in 1988 he received a scholarship from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), one of the most important institutions of the time.
So Sabeer Bhatia packed his bags and left for the United States to pursue science. After completing his scholarship at the Californian institute, he continued his studies, this time specializing in electrical engineering, a field in which he graduated in 1993 at …
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