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While still an undergraduate at Wharton, Josh cofounded Infonautics Corporation with entrepreneur Marvin Weinberger. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Josh left Infonautics to found Half.com in July of 1999, and led it to become one of the largest sellers of used books, movies and music in the world. Half.com was acquired by eBay in July 2000 in a stock deal valued at the time at more than $300 million -- and Josh remained with eBay for three years, running the Half.com business unit and growing eBay's Media marketplace to almost half a billion dollars in annual gross merchandise sales In early 2004 Josh helped to found TurnTide, an anti-spam company that had created the world's first anti-spam router. TurnTide was acquired by Symantec just six months later for an estimated $28 million. | 