Imagine selling your one-year-old company for $400 million!
Well, that's exactly what happened with Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, the founders of Hotmail.
Launched in 1996, Hotmail was one of the first online email services, introduced even before
Imo it would have most likely failed.
That's because Outlook was also successful only because of the microsoft 365 subscription which gives acces to Excel, word, etc.
Also it's not that great tool that people would use it instead of using Gmail or Yahoo mail.