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5. Sabeer Bhatia:
Sabeer Bhatia, the pioneer of web-based email, was born on 30th December 1968 in Chandigarh. He has done the unconventional, ever since he decided to study abroad when he was 19 years old. Two years into undergraduate education at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Bhatia qualified for a transfer scholarship at Caltech, which is considered to be the most competitive scholarship in the world. After completing his graduation from Caltech in 1989, he pursued an MS in Electrical Engineering at the Stanford University.
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When Bhatia was 27 years old, he was no longer interested in working for others, and together with Jack Smith set up Hotmail on 4th July 1996. So, revolutionary was his idea that Microsoft bought it for an astonishing sum of $400 million after 18 months. Till date, Hotmail remains the largest email provider in the world with over 369 million registered users.
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