Josh Kopelman

In working with so many founders, I've consistently seen that after a company has product-market-fit, the all-consuming priority shifts to building a high functioning executive team. I'm excited a...

The original drip campaign. We focused on organic flow. We captured demand mid-stream. We solved funnel leakage. CPMs that held water. We respected the natural user journey.

Private company CEOs go to extreme lengths to avoid down rounds. But from Jan 2022 to Jan 2023, almost every public company took the equivalent of ~40% Down Round. Of the 63 public companies in t...

When the journey is the destination…

I miss when pitch emails were bad in a human way. Now so many are just prompts with a send button. At this point, just send me the prompt. It’d be more honest.

Amazon raised $54 million in its Initial Public Offering

In 20+ years of building @firstround, I’ve never hired for this specific role before. I’m kicking off a search to hire an Investor who will work directly alongside me. They will share my obsessio...

Almost 5 years ago, @martabralic told me her "imagine if": Imagine if every mother had 24/7 access to quality prenatal care. Today, @PomeloCare covers 25M lives and nearly 7% of all U.S. births, ...

Adding a new Linkedin skill... https://t.co/4iziSn6x1f

Wishing a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2026 to EVERYONE — including Melody C., who LinkedIn claims is a “Partner at First Round Capital,” which is, quite frankly, FAKE NEWS!!! Totally made up. A...

From @RayDalio’s book, How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle https://t.co/xRa1uJIXLC

So well written. So insightful.

How long until we have the first fund-of-funds dedicated solely to rolling up all the AI rollup funds?? Names: That's How We Rollup Capital? Rollup Your Sleeves Ventures? Rock ’n’ Rollup Fund? ht...

Congrats to @srikanthatcache and the @usecache team on crossing $1B in assets! Likely one of the fastest to reach this milestone among digital investment platforms. https://t.co/xH4rqlYCTf

Instead of just throwing AI at its sales team and expecting results, @NotionHQ did something different: they turned an engineer into a full-blown BDR for a month. This immersion led to a much cle...