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Josh Kopelman’s ‘most spectacular failure’: not investing in Twitter

Back when Twitter was just T-w-t-t-r, Josh Kopelman decided against investing in the microblogging startup. “That is my most spectacular failure,” the First Round Capital founder said at a San Francisco tech conference on Thursday, the same day Twitter announced that it had filed plans to go public. Read the Wall Street Journal’s account of […]

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Juliana Reyes,  @juliana_f_reyes
Sep 17, 2013 9:30am
First Round Capital's Josh Kopelman at Wharton in March 2013. (Photo via Wharton)

Back when Twitter was just T-w-t-t-r, Josh Kopelman decided against investing in the microblogging startup.

“That is my most spectacular failure,” the First Round Capital founder said at a San Francisco tech conference on Thursday, the same day Twitter announced that it had filed plans to go public.

Read the Wall Street Journal’s account of Kopelman’s Twitter story here.

Companies: First Round Capital / Twitter
People: Josh Kopelman
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