A rather expensive pizza

April 4, 2008

pizza.jpgI’m not nearly as clever as I think I am. Granted, my ego has set the bar pretty high — but still.

On the most recently updated list of “People I Would Like to Be,” Chris Clark of North Potomac has climbed to the top. Clark just sold the domain name pizza.com for $2.6 million. He bought it about 14 years ago for $20.

Not a bad return on investment.

We’ve all looked at some new gadget or idea and shouted to anyone who happened to be around, “I thought of that years ago!” In many cases, we even did.

How about you? What great invention or revelation did you let slip away, only to discover years later it had granted fame to someone else?

JOE BACCHUS, Web Specialist

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Posted by Jackie Sauter | Filed Under business, internet, montgomery county 

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