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Oct 21, 2026

Invested by Aleph

Invested by Aleph

Josh Kopelman, Founder of First Round Capital and Half.com, on Why Buying Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX Is a Cyclical Trade, Catching the Last Chair in the Dot-Com Game, and Earning Tens of Millions in Free Media with Viral Marketing

Oct 21 · 1 Mention

Josh KopelmanGUEST
5:23
And the smallest town with the word half in it was halfway Oregon, population 350 something.
Josh KopelmanGUEST
5:30
And it was a gold rush town that got left behind.
Josh KopelmanGUEST
5:34
Needless to say, the next day, Mark Hughes was on a plane to meet with the mayor of Halfway Oregon, and they agreed to change their name from Halfway Oregon to Half.com Oregon.
Josh KopelmanGUEST
5:45
And that got us tens of millions of dollars of free media.
Josh KopelmanGUEST
5:50
Four-minute segment on the Today Show, Wall Street Journal, 60 minutes.

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