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Eventbrite: Julia Hartz

How I Built This · 17 Feb 2020 · 1h 04m

What this episode covers

Julia Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite, explains how she left a promising career in television development at MTV and FX Networks to launch the ticketing platform with her husband Kevin Hartz and CTO Renaud Visage. They bootstrapped the company from a warehouse closet, initially targeting tech bloggers and small event creators to fill the gap between cash-and-check door sales and expensive enterprise software like Ticketmaster. After facing 27 rejections from VCs in 2008, they leveraged the recession and Facebook integration to grow gross ticket sales to $10 million, eventually securing funding from Sequoia Capital and taking the company public in 2018.

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Eventbrite, Ticketmaster, Sequoia Capital, MTV, FX Networks, Facebook, Walmart, Zoom, PayPal
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