Sabeer Bhatia back in business with 'social video platform' for job seekers | Business Standard News

Hotmail co-founder launches ShowReel, a purpose-driven social video platform that will match job seekers with companies looking for talent Topics LinkedIn | TikTok | Indian job seekers He invested and worked with many other companies, he candidly admits, but nothing hit as big as his messaging platform Hotmail. He sold it to Microsoft in 1998 for a cool $400 million. But tech entrepreneur Sabeer Bhatia is back in business again. Today, Bhatia launched ShowReel, a purpose-driven social video platform that will match job seekers with companies looking for talent. The platform, which is to be launched first in India and then in the US too, will enable job seekers to build their own professional video profile. And he is giving himself six months to scale up his business model. But is he replicating another LinkedIn? Or does he want to take them on? Bhatia explains how this platform is different. He admits that his initial attempt was not successful as it was based on the app asking potential job seekers text-based questions. “But I have since modified the model and have hit upon a winning idea,” says Bhatia. What he now does is interview them, as if he were conducting a Zoom interview with…
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