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Personal Profile

Sabeer Bhatia
  • Date of Birth:
    December 30, 1968
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Capricorn
  • Place of Birth:
    Chandigarh
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    Indian
  • Religion:
    Punjabi
  • Education:
    Bishop Cotton's School, Pune
    St Joseph's College, Bangalore
    Stanford University
    Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani

Family

Sabeer Bhatia
  • Father:
    Baldev Bhatia
  • Mother:
    Daman Bhatia
  • Spouse:
    Tania Sharma

Career

Sabeer Bhatia

Awards

Sabeer Bhatia
In 1998 - Entrepreneur of the Year," Awarded by the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Trivia

Sabeer Bhatia
  • He was named by TIME as one of the "People to Watch" in International Business (2002).
  • Selected by the San Jose Mercury News and POV magazine as one of the ten most successful entrepreneurs of (1998).
  • Sabeer Bhatia is the co-founder of Hotmail and an entrepreneur.

Biography

Sabeer Bhatia
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Sabeer Bhatia was born to a Punjabi family in Chandigarh, India and he is a Hindu. His father, Baldev Bhatia, was as an officer in the Indian Army who later joined the Indian Ministry of Defence, while his mother, Daman Bhatia, was a senior official at the Central Bank of India. Bhatia was schooled at the St. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bangalore.

 In 1985, he began his undergraduate education at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) in Pilani and was transferred to Caltech after two years at BITS. After graduating from Caltech, Sabeer went to Stanford University in 1989 to pursue his M.S. in Electrical Engineering. At Stanford, he worked on Ultra Low Power VLSI Design.

At Stanford, he was inspired by entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs and Scott McNealy eventually decided to become one himself. Instead of pursuing a Ph.D. after his Masters, he decided to join Apple in 1991.

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