Jack Smith (Hotmail)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

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]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#mw-headhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#p-searchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_note-stanfordalumni-1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotmailhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabeer_Bhatiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-based_emailhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotmailhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_note-stanfordalumni-1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_executive_officerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_note-2http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintrohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_(company)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBookhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_note-findarticles-3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_note-4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_note-stanfordalumni-1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_note-5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Technology_Officerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsofthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_note-6http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Akamba_Corporation&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsofthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_note-BLOOMBERG-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

This biographical article relating to a computer specialist is a stub. You can help

Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from

"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)&oldid=634686450"

Categories:

1960s births

Living people

Businesspeople in information technology

American technology chief executives

Chief technology officers

Computer specialist stubs

Hidden categories:

Articles with hCards

Place of birth missing (living people)

All stub articles

Navigation menu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_note-findarticles-3http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintrohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_ref-stanfordalumni_1-0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_ref-stanfordalumni_1-1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_ref-stanfordalumni_1-2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po_Bronsonhttp://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1999/sepoct/articles/bhatia.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_ref-2http://www.proximex.com/management-teamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_ref-findarticles_3-0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_ref-findarticles_3-1http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_Sept_24/ai_n20512816http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_ref-4http://web.archive.org/web/19970408045953/www.hotmail.com/about.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_ref-5http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1999/07-12hotmail.mspxhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_ref-6http://news.cnet.com/2100-1033-206717.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)#cite_ref-BLOOMBERG_7-0http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=7702272&privcapId=39771911&previousCapId=39771911&previousTitle=Proximex%20Corporationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Businessweekhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintrohttp://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.12/hotmale_pr.htmlhttp://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.12/hotmale_pr.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_(magazine)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Stubhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)&action=edithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Compu-bio-stubhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)&oldid=634686450http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Categoryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1960s_birthshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_peoplehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Businesspeople_in_information_technologyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_technology_chief_executiveshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chief_technology_officershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computer_specialist_stubshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_with_hCardshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Place_of_birth_missing_(living_people)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_stub_articleshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Computer-aj_aj_ashton_01.svg

Personal tools

Create account

Log in

Namespaces

Article

Talk

Variants

Views

Read

Edit

View history

More

Search

Go

Navigation

Main page

Contents

Featured content

Current events

Random article

Donate to Wikipedia

Wikimedia Shop

Interaction

Help

About Wikipedia

Community portal

Recent changes

Contact page

Tools

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Jack+Smith+%28Hotmail%29&type=signuphttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Jack+Smith+%28Hotmail%29http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)&action=edit&editintro=Template:BLP_editintrohttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)&action=historyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contentshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Featured_contenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_eventshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randomhttps://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector?utm_source=donate&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=C13_en.wikipedia.org&uselang=enhttp://shop.wikimedia.org/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contentshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Abouthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us

What links here

Related changes

Upload file

Special pages

Permanent link

Page information

Wikidata item

Cite this page

Print/export

Create a book

Download as PDF

Printable version

Languages

Italiano

Nederlands

Portugus

Edit links

This page was last modified on 20 November 2014, at 12:58.

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;

additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and

Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia

Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.

Privacy policy

About Wikipedia

Disclaimers

Contact Wikipedia

Developers

Mobile view

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:File_Upload_Wizardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPageshttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)&oldid=634686450http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)&action=infohttp://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1942216http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CiteThisPage&page=Jack_Smith_%28Hotmail%29&id=634686450http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator&referer=Jack+Smith+%28Hotmail%29http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=render_article&arttitle=Jack+Smith+%28Hotmail%29&oldid=634686450&writer=rdf2latexhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)&printable=yeshttp://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(imprenditore)http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smithhttp://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%82%91%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E5%8F%B2%E5%AF%86%E6%96%AFhttp://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1942216#sitelinks-wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_Licensehttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Usehttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policyhttp://www.wikimediafoundation.org/http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Abouthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_ushttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/How_to_contributehttp://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Smith_(Hotmail)&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobilehttp://wikimediafoundation.org/http://www.mediawiki.org/http://wikimediafoundation.org/http://www.mediawiki.org/