Sabeer Bhatia on building Hotmail, acquisition from Microsoft and the journey ahead
4.03 billion people!
That’s the most recent reported number of email users worldwide. No platform even comes close to the potential reach of email. The latest Facebook statistics give them over 2.8 billion monthly active users.
As of today there are almost 1 billion and 700 thousand active users of Gmail, being of the most popular email service providers. But it was launched on 1 April 2004. Prior to Gmail, the tech trend of that era was Hotmail, and if you had a Hotmail account, that was something worth showing-off.
Founded in 1996, by the guest of our today’s episode Sabeer Bhatia and his…
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