Jack Smith (Hotmail)

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Jack Smith
Born

c. 1968 (age 4647)[1]

Occupation

CEO of Proximex

Known for

co-founded Hotmail

Jack Smith, along with Sabeer Bhatia, founded the first free web-based email service,
Hotmail, in 1996.[1]
He has been the CEO of Proximex since 2007.[2]

Career[edit]
Jack Smith worked at FirePower Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Canon Inc., where he
designed integrated circuits for use in high performance PowerPC workstations, and
invented and marketed the first Web server accelerator card that boosted server
performance significantly.
Later on at Apple Computer, he worked on several of Apple's early PowerBook
Computers.[3]
He has been the founder and president of EEE.com, building custom Internet Web
solutions.[4]
Smith came up with the idea for anonymous web-based email in 1995, and worked with
Sabeer Bhatia, his colleague at Apple, to found the company.[1] The company launched on
July 4, 1996 [5] with Smith as its Chief Technology Officer.
In December 1997 Bhatia sold Hotmail to Microsoft for a reported $400 million.[6]
Smith went on to co-found Akamba Corporation and work as its CEO.
He had also served as a Director of Engineering of Microsoft, first heading its Hotmail
engineering division, and then leading a team developing next generation Internet
software infrastructure.[7]

In 2007 he was named CEO of Proximex.[3]

References[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Po Bronson (1999). "What's the Big Idea?". Stanford Magazine.
2. Jump up ^ "Management Team". Proximex.
3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Proximex Names Jack Smith as CEO". Business Wire. September 24,
2007.
4. Jump up ^ Brief bio available in the "About" section of the original HoTMaiL website
(archived 1997)
5. Jump up ^ "Hotmail turns three". Microsoft News Center. July 9, 1999.
6. Jump up ^ Jeff Pelline (January 3, 1998). "Microsoft buys Hotmail". CNET News.
7. Jump up ^ "Executive Profile: Jack Smith", Bloomberg Businessweek

Further reading[edit]

Bronson, Po, "HotMale: Sabeer Bhatia started his company on $300,000 and sold
it two years later for $400 million. So, is he lucky, or great?", Wired, Issue 6.12,
December 1998
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