Joshua Kopelman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist.
Kopelman is best known as the founder of Half.com, a fixed price marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of used books, movies and music products. In 2000, Kopelman sold Half.com to EBay for US $350 million.
Kopelman was born in Great Neck, New York. He attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1992, during his sophomore year, Josh co-fo...
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Joshua Kopelman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist.
Kopelman is best known as the founder of Half.com, a fixed price marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of used books, movies and music products. In 2000, Kopelman sold Half.com to EBay for US $350 million.
Kopelman was born in Great Neck, New York. He attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1992, during his sophomore year, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation – an Internet information company. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Kopelman left Infonautics in 1999 to found Half.com.
After selling Half.com to eBay, Kopelman remained with eBay for three years. In early 2004 Josh co-founded TurnTide, an anti-spam company that acquired and marketed the world's first anti-spam router from ePrivacy Group. TurnTide was acquired by Symantec just six months later.
In 2001 Josh and his wife created the Kopelman Foundation, a non-profit organization...
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