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SeatGeek raised nearly $100M before hiring its first finance employee
“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”
Jack Groetzinger Jun 1, 2018 ▶ 5:25 20VC: Why Every Startup Will Either Fail or Rebrand, How To Do OKRs The Right Way & How To Know The Reversible From the Irreversible Mistakes with Jack Groetzinger, Founder & CEO @ SeatGeek
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SeatGeek prefers PhDs and quant traders over bootcamp data science grads
“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…”
Jack Groetzinger Jun 1, 2018 ▶ 18:22 20VC: Why Every Startup Will Either Fail or Rebrand, How To Do OKRs The Right Way & How To Know The Reversible From the Irreversible Mistakes with Jack Groetzinger, Founder & CEO @ SeatGeek
Disclosure
SeatGeek delayed fundraising until unit economics proved highly favorable
“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.”
Jack Groetzinger Jun 1, 2018 ▶ 21:35 20VC: Why Every Startup Will Either Fail or Rebrand, How To Do OKRs The Right Way & How To Know The Reversible From the Irreversible Mistakes with Jack Groetzinger, Founder & CEO @ SeatGeek
Disclosure
SeatGeek spent $5M-$10M yearly on marketing before rebranding
“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.”
Jack Groetzinger Jun 1, 2018 ▶ 23:49 20VC: Why Every Startup Will Either Fail or Rebrand, How To Do OKRs The Right Way & How To Know The Reversible From the Irreversible Mistakes with Jack Groetzinger, Founder & CEO @ SeatGeek
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