Ticketmaster

“We created a company to do that, and MasterCard came and bought it. This was in 2013. And then all of our customers, and we had good customers, actually, back then Stripe and Lyft were a customer, and we did a lot of payouts to Lyft for Stripe. Ticketmaster wa…”

“Nowadays, the act gets everything, and then the promoter, which is really basically one promoter, Live Nation now, they own a lot of the venues, they get the parking, and they, because they own Ticketmaster, they get that ticket charges.”

“I think we had 54,000 events that were live on the platform, and, you know, literally overnight, They all went or either canceled or postponed.”

“Fifty million fans go to college football every year, and that's largely not Ticketmaster.”

“And so we have one team that's already loaded their blockchain, their tickets. Another one will go in on July. We're redesigning our dashboard. There's an API that we've already built for Ticketmaster customers.”

“Just so you know, I've worked with TickMaster a lot. This is not an easy left. Just so you know, it's hard to integrate into their system. It's hard to get in their trust. It's a long sales cycle. It's a long integration cycle. It's a long, it's, there's a lot…”

“And so I did consulting for them and I started from the bottom, right? People were like, who are you? I was doing some support tickets for them et cetera, explanations. But then I started getting contracts like the NBA, you know, ticket master. I'm in Dubai ta…”

“The tech entrepreneur, one thing we figured out, like, the younger the company are, the more the CEO is an entrepreneur that founded the company in the first place, the stronger the relationship is. Versus big platform back in the day is thinking about the Viv…”

“It's pretty crazy that I think the announcement was that they had 900 stadiums worth of demand showing up to Ticketmaster.com, and there's 50 shows.”

“For a large site, like a Ticketmaster and eBay, it's probably one to four weeks is the rough timeline once you're really optimized.”

“You want to avoid union venues and Ticketmaster venues, because if you work at a lot of venues, sign contracts with Ticketmaster or Something like that, and you have to work with Ticketmaster. F that.”

“The tickets will get more expensive. I think there'll be less diversity in music as a result, but you know, the laws are changing, right?”

“The Ticketmaster strategy is one part of a Live Nation strategy, which is to be vertically integrated into an event. It's large arenas and stadiums that typically serve sports and music that But Eventbrite is a horizontal platform that enables a wide array of …”

“The guy who was in charge of it actually for most of that time was a gentleman named John Foley, who's now the CEO of Peloton.”

“And I think we bought it for three million dollars, because it was 2001, and everything had crashed. And so, it had, at one point, a 120 people. I got it down to six people.”

“Our clients are going to be like the companies like the live nations of the world ticket master or right down to a potential artist that's trying to roll out their new album and things like that tied to a label.”

“So, so we're also doing price. So we basically, we have a pricing tool, also. Right now it's exclusively with Ticketmaster, where we are the dynamic pricing agent, we have Ticketmaster”