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== Personal Life ==
== Personal Life ==
=== Early Life===
=== Early Life===
Marc Ostrofsky was born in Los Angeles, his dad was a professor at UCLA. When he was 5, he ran his own lemonade stand and says "that's the way to learn business as a kid!" He was a major donor to lemonade day, which teaches kids entrepreneurship. Once, his neighbor asked him to clean his car, when he was 7, the neighbor gave him $10 for cleaning his car. After this, he started waxing cars. After a few years, he moved to Houston with his family. He decided to join University of Texas to study BBA.
Marc Ostrofsky still fondly remembers his first forays into business, a lemonade stand and washing his neighbors' cars. Other early entrepreneurial highlights include turning down work with a young startup in college, the project went on to become DELL computers.
Marc Ostrofsky was born in Los Angeles, his dad was a professor at UCLA.
On June 29, 2008, he was married to Beverle in Aspen, Colorado. He like photography, playing golf and traveling. He has five daughters and currently resides in Houston.<ref>[http://www.getrichclick.com/about-marc/bio/ getrichclick.com]</ref>
=== Beginning of Work and the Internet Industry ===
=== Beginning of Work and the Internet Industry ===
After graduating from college, he landed a national magazine because of his entreprenurial businesses in the college. As a result of this magazine publicity, he received several job offers but refused them because he wanted to do "his own thing". After a while, he found what he was looking for "Telecom deregulation had just happened," Ostrofsky says. "I was walking down the street and met a guy hawking "DISCOUNT LONG DISTANCE SERVICE" on the street. The cards he was handing out claimed the service saved the user 50-70% off of AT&T's prices. I asked him "do you actually get paid for giving this to me? and he said yes, I get 25% of the third month's bill plus $5 for every card I give away. OMG! I had found what I wanted - a serious gold mine!". He went to Dallas and joined the company, after he made several sales, he was made the Sales Manager because of his skills.
After graduating from college, he joined a national magazine thanks to his experience with his entreprenurial businesses in the college. As a result of this magazine publicity, he received several job offers but refused them because he wanted to do "his own thing". From there he later joined the telecommunications industry, and quickly excelled therein.
His sister Keri inspired him to join the domain industry. His sister became a professor at University of Texas after completing PhD from Harvard. In 1994, Marc went to speak to his sister's class about business and she showed him the "Internet". He came home and searched domain names. After some search he decided to buy business.com. He consulted his father and bought the domain Business.com for $150K. He sold this domain for $7.5million in 1999 and used a lot of money on buying more domains.<ref>[http://dnjournal.com/cover/2011/june-july.htm dnjournal.com]</ref>
His sister Keri inspired him to join the domain industry. His sister became a professor at University of Texas after completing PhD from Harvard. In 1994, Marc went to speak to his sister's class about business and she showed him the "Internet". He came home and began searching domain names. After some search he decided to buy business.com. He consulted his father and bought the domain Business.com for $150K. He sold this domain for $7.5million in 1999, he used much of the money to further reinvest in domains.<ref>[http://dnjournal.com/cover/2011/june-july.htm dnjournal.com]</ref>
===Fun Fact===
His daughters Kelly and Shelly are identical twins, and they graduated co-valedictorians of their high school.
== Education ==
== Education ==