# The Unpredictable Life Cycles of Political Tech Companies with Jed Alpert

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Podcast: [The Great Battlefield](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-battlefield-1120101)
Published: 2026-06-17T17:54:57+00:00
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## Resource

Jed Alpert joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Mobile Commons (one of the earliest political texting platforms), selling it and recently buying it back and how he plans to lead Mobile Commons in a new technical age.

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