SeatGeek

“I think people tend to be a little bit myopic and not invest in sort of employer brand building stuff that can actually be really impactful. So, you know, a few examples of that are blogging about the things that you're doing, open sourcing software, Both of t…”

“The biggest challenge sort of sorting through the data science pool is filtering the people who are sort of very serious quantitative professionals versus folks who did a boot camp. For three months and are now trying to become a data scientist. And there's ab…”

“We waited forever to hire a full-time finance person. I think we'd raised almost a hundred million dollars before we hired anyone full-time in finance”

“Each company maybe has two to three sort of major strategic moments per year at most, but they're incredibly important to get right and can be company champion.”

“So we acquired a company called Toptics. For fifty six million dollars last year, and we raised a, around, it was almost exactly that amount to finance the deal.”

“We waited a long time to raise money until we were really sort of irrefutable and controvertible evidence that the CAC LTV math was heavily in our favor and would be idiots not to raise more money.”

“Being technical is far and away the most important criterion that sort of drives success. Basically, you can't have too many technical people On a founding team.”

“For us, there was a point where we were spending multiple millions of dollars a year, five to ten million dollars a year in marketing, and we felt like our brand was an inhibitor success rather than an accelerant.”

“If we want to build a differentiated brand as we want to be the best place for an engineer to work in New York, that would be sort of a ludicrous, probably overambitious thing for us to say if we were based in San Francisco. There's just so many iconic technol…”

“When you agree to take someone out of your board and raise a bunch of money from someone, just how long-term sort of immutable the commitment is. I think if a lot of founders realized that fully, they would do more work and more diligence and spend more, more …”

“Pretty early on, we realized, thanks to user feedback, that people didn't just want data. They actually wanted us to help them suggest what tickets to buy and sort of push them through that process.”

“For us, for example, the channel that was our very biggest driver back in 2013, Twitter, mobile acquisition has become probably number 10 on the list right now.”

“Like, SeatGeek was a 2010 investment. I think it's a great company. Dave led that for us. I think it's gonna ultimately have an amazing liquidity event”

“SeatGeek's been IPO ready for two years.”

“Harry, we still own every last share in SeatGeek. That was an investment I made in 2010.”