Bhatia: Hotmail captured 10M subscribers when internet had only 30-40M users
Sabeer Bhatia · Sabeer Bhatia on building Hotmail, acquisition from Microsoft and the journey ahead · Dec 20, 2021 · at 5:26
Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia discusses Hotmail's market share and scale prior to its acquisition by Microsoft.
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“We had caught about ten million subscribers when the total size of the internet population was about maybe 30 or forty million and everything was just growing.”
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