In the mid to late ’90s, when Bhatia was working in FirePower Systems, management installed a firewall around corporate intranet. They started playing around with it and came up with the idea to do a simple-to-install database at the back end. They began to think seriously about the huge scale of opportunities the Internet could give them. Two colleagues from Stanford had gone on to start Yahoo and soon got $1 million investment. It was exciting for them to see all little companies get started. The Internet was unfolding, so the co-founders started spending more and more time on it. Hotmail was one of the very first services to offer free web-based email in the world started back in 1996, founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and acquired by Microsoft in 1997, later rebranded as Windows Live Hotmail and in 2013 as – ‘Outlook.’ See the opportunityīefore launching the Hotmail, many people did not believe that email could be a browser-based product. *This article is based on the book Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston
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