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Bhatia: Hotmail captured 10M subscribers when internet had only 30-40M users
“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.”
Sabeer Bhatia Dec 20, 2021 ▶ 5:26 Sabeer Bhatia on building Hotmail, acquisition from Microsoft and the journey ahead
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Bhatia: My biggest mistake was being too trusting when picking teammates
“For me, the mistakes were I, you know, I didn't find the right people to work with. That was my number one mistake. I'm too trusting. I think everybody has the same reason for being with you. That anybody else you know, that you have that is to improve the, yo…”
Sabeer Bhatia Dec 20, 2021 ▶ 27:17 Sabeer Bhatia on building Hotmail, acquisition from Microsoft and the journey ahead
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Bhatia: Hotmail had two years of runway during Microsoft acquisition talks
“We were very fortunate that our investors you know, gave us you know, More funding so that we could last another two years, you know, without having to worry about running out of capital, if you will.”
Sabeer Bhatia Dec 20, 2021 ▶ 8:52 Sabeer Bhatia on building Hotmail, acquisition from Microsoft and the journey ahead
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