Sabeer Bhatia: Jaxtr SMS can be bigger than Hotmail
Sabeer Bhatia, serial entrepreneur believes he's on to the next big idea after Hotmail. Critics say none of his ideas have been hot after Hotmail, which he sold to Bill Gates Microsoft for $ 400 million dollars back in 1998.
The new idea, Jaxtr SMS is an advertisement supported multi-platform mobile application that he claims will make SMS as we know it redundant as it lets users with data connection send messages to any other mobile phone - domestic and international - free.
Bhatia who spends most of his time in silicon valley, deflects all questions pertaining to his other ventures, such as Live Documents and Arzoo, which are yet to taste success. Jaxtr is growing "virally" claims Bhatia, an effusive marketer offering free android based Micromax phones to journalists to "enable" them check out the Jaxtr app. He also shares a few ideas about how he would have run Hotmail differently, in an interview with ET . Excerpts:
The new idea, Jaxtr SMS is an advertisement supported multi-platform mobile application that he claims will make SMS as we know it redundant as it lets users with data connection send messages to any other mobile phone - domestic and international - free.
Bhatia who spends most of his time in silicon valley, deflects all questions pertaining to his other ventures, such as Live Documents and Arzoo, which are yet to taste success. Jaxtr is growing "virally" claims Bhatia, an effusive marketer offering free android based Micromax phones to journalists to "enable" them check out the Jaxtr app. He also shares a few ideas about how he would have run Hotmail differently, in an interview with ET . Excerpts:
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