Sabeer Bhatia (born 30 December 1968)[3] is an Indian businessman who co-founded the first free web-based email service, Hotmail.com (later Outlook.com) in 1996.

ShowReel initially focused on connecting users through short videos for job seekers and founders.

He, along with his colleague Jack Smith, set up Hotmail on 4 July 1996, American Independence Day, symbolizing "freedom" from ISP-based e-mail and the ability to access a user's inbox from anywhere in the world.

[7] As president and CEO, Bhatia led Hotmail until its eventual acquisition by Microsoft in 1998 for an estimated $400 million.

Claiming it to be a disruptive technology, he says that the operators will lose revenue on the reduced number of SMSes on their network but will benefit from the data plan that the user has to buy.