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Once again, Starbucks proves to be a great place to meet interesting people. Today, I met Michael Kovatch, who is recently “Internet” famous for selling iPhone.com to Apple. Thanks for the introduction Kurt! Following is a brief video interview where Michael explains how he acquired iPhone.com. You can add this to your trivia files.
How much woud you have sold iPhone.com for?
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May 7 2008
Man, I wish I bought a bunch of domains back in the day.
May 8 2008
[...] blogger behind ThinkingSerious.com, Elmer Thomas, happened to run into the original owner of iPhone.com at Starbucks; see the video [...]
May 8 2008
[...] blogger behind ThinkingSerious.com, Elmer Thomas, happened to run into the original owner of iPhone.com at Starbucks; see the video [...]
May 8 2008
[...] Thomas of Thinking Serious, ran into Michael Kovatch at a StarBucks and used the opportunity for a video interview about the [...]
May 8 2008
That’s an interesting story. Michael Kovatch is selling iphone.com to Apple, isn’t it? I can hardly wait to see what happens next.
May 9 2008
Minor correction: He bought the domain in 1993, not 1983
May 16 2008
[...] Elmer runs into Michael Kovach in Starbucks, Michael bought iphone.com in 1993 and kept it until 2006 when he sold it to Apple. [...]
May 18 2008
Didn’t he sell it for 1 millions dollars?
June 8 2008
[...] enough, out of a Starbucks cup which will make sense in a minute!) I cam across a post over on thinkingserious.com. In said post, I found a youtube video of an interview with a chap called Michael Kovatch. Michael [...]
June 8 2008
Why wouldn’t he look you in the eye? Was he lying or were there just lots of more interesting people about…