Details

Industries

E-Commerce,Marketplace,Retail,Shopping

Founded date

Jan 1, 1999

Number Of Employee

10001 - max

Operating Status

Active

Half.com is a person-to-person online marketplace that was acquired by [eBay](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ebay) in June 2000.

Half.com was founded in 1999 by American entrepreneur Josh Kopelman (Infonautics, Turntide, Comcast Interactive Capital, First Round Capital) and Sunny Balijepalli (who more recently founded ZoomIn.com).[2] As an advertising gimmick, in December of the same year, the company paid the town of Halfway, Oregon US$100,000 and donated 20 new computers to change its name to "Half.com, Oregon" for a year.