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Hartz: Jason Calacanis screamed at him over ticketing TechCrunch events
“He used to call me up at Eventbrite and scream at me, like, for, you know, he had a big rivalry with TechCrunch, And when we would ticket things for TechCrunch, he would get really angry and like, just call me up and scream at me for doing that.”
Hartz: Eventbrite took Sequoia's Series A despite the lowest valuation
“In the case of Eventbrite, our Series A was actually the lowest price term sheet, but having that trust and knowing his brainpower and prowess in building companies, it became a very easy choice for us”
Serota: Companies should import culture from remote offices, not export HQ culture
“Companies overvalue the culture they have today and undervalue the culture they can evolve into and create in the future. So this was a big lesson for me from Julia hearts at event, right? That culture should not be stagnant or overly preserved. It should evol…”
Julia Hartz killed the "What Would Kevin Do" mindset upon becoming CEO
“I had to actively tell myself that on January first of this year, I was actually never, I was going to stop saying what would Kevin do? So I killed WWKD and I had to start making my own decisions.”
Beim: A $60B pipeline of successful female-founded tech companies exists
“There is a pipeline, and I've actually done some research on this and wrote a blog on it, it's about a sixty billion dollar pipeline of very successful female-founded companies, including Epic Systems, Theranos, Eventbrite, Howes, Guild, many others.”
Casey Winters: Product growth connects users to existing core value
“Growth is about connecting people to the value that's already been created by the business, you know, either through product or services or whatever. So growth is not about building totally new features, totally new products. It's about once we have those and …”
Eventbrite processed $3B in gross ticket sales in 2017
“So, it's valued at a little over a billion dollars. It's Generating three billion in gross ticket sales this year. We'll sell two hundred million tickets, but two hundred million tickets will be transacted in total on the platform this year by, you know, 800,0…”
Ticketing was an abysmal, unexciting industry when Eventbrite launched
“We want to create a horizontal platform in an abysmal industry. Like ticketing was just not something that people got excited about.”
Stebbings: Bending Spoons acquired Eventbrite for $500 million
“Just this week, they acquired Eventbrite for five hundred million dollars.”
Rosenberg: Eventbrite was a $30M PLG company before adding enterprise sales
“Eventbrite was a thirty million dollar product led growth company.”
Serota: Eventbrite scaled its Mendoza engineering team to 100 people
“So we took on a remote development strategy and ended up acquiring and then building it upon a team based in Mendoza, Argentina. And this is where I saw firsthand the power of having access to talent in a market Far outside the valley like Mendoza, which just …”
Eventbrite was bootstrapped using all of Julia and Kevin Hartz's savings
“Why don't we try to do something together and you can make no money and we could put all of our money, all of our savings into bootstrapping a company.”
Eventbrite bootstrapped for three years to test the co-founders' working relationship
“I mean, we bootstrapped the company for three years, so we didn't need to really go out and present ourselves as a co-founding couple until we really kind of had a good sense of how we worked together.”