Eventbrite, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Eventbrite comes up
Advice Line with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite
- ▶ 0:38 Guy Raz Joining me today is Julia Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:15 Guy Raz From Eventbrite, uh, tell us your name, where you're calling from, and just a line or two about your business, please.
- ▶ 17:51 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and my guest today is Julia Hartz, co-founder of Eventbrite, and we are taking your calls.
- ▶ 18:02 Guy Raz You're on with Julia Hartz, co-founder of Eventbrite.
- ▶ 32:02 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and today I'm taking your calls with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite, and let's bring in our next caller.
- ▶ 37:35 Guy Raz You need to do an Eventbrite event. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:15 Guy Raz That's Julia Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite. 2 times in the scene
Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
- ▶ 33:07 James Hirschfeld Yeah, and by the way, it's a great business model, and obviously Eventbrite is
- ▶ 53:13 Guy Raz Um, if you're in events business, we've had Eventbrite on the show, um, or you are in the business of helping people to organize their events, different story.
Leading through radical change with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite
- ▶ 0:07 Guy Raz The pandemic nearly crushed the ticketing company Eventbrite. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:44 Julia Hartz There was not going to be business as usual in any area of our business in 2020, and probably for a few years after that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:52 Julia Hartz And I, I was able to compartmentalize the fear and the uncertainty with what we needed to do to be there for, first and foremost, our creators, and then our Breitlings, which is our Eventbrite team. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:05 Julia Hartz You know, decline that was happening, and we'd lost the thread on who's our most successful creator on the platform, because Eventbrite's sort of like the everything platform, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:18 Guy Raz We're going to take a quick break, but when we come back, more on how Julia kept her company going during the pandemic, and how Eventbrite is changing and evolving to the shifting events market today.
- ▶ 17:18 Guy Raz My guest today is Julia Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:17 Guy Raz So essentially, beforehand, Eventbrite was really just a platform where people would sell tickets, and then you would get a 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:11 Julia Hartz Our job is to make it better, faster, and more effective for them to do that through Eventbrite than they could do on their own. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:54 Julia Hartz And in five months, we integrated the team and rolled out marketing tools called, we call Eventbrite Boost to our customers.
- ▶ 29:57 Julia Hartz You know, uh, it's one of those things that they don't tell you when you, when you become the CEO or when you take a company public, they don't tell you both sides of the equation, which is, um, mostly what I heard when we were taking… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:16 Guy Raz Here's more from my conversation with Eventbrite co-founder and CEO, Julia Hartz. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:48 Guy Raz I mean, if you're, if you're a twenty-two-year-old joining Eventbrite out of college today, and everybody around you is pretty much remote, it's different than when you started, you know, in your career, because, you know, you worked for,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:02 Julia Hartz So I stepped back from that practice, and I really focused on how can we get back to what Eventbrite can do to be a great company? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:44 Guy Raz That's Julia Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite.
How I Built Resilience: Beverly Leon of Local Civics
- ▶ 2:32 Beverly Leon So think about this like an Eventbrite for middle and high school students, and then they can track their progress, set harder goals, set more challenging goals, and explore different parts of their community.
How I Built Resilience: Live with Julia Hartz
- ▶ 0:12 Guy Raz And today, I am bringing you my conversation with Julia Hartz, the founder of Eventbrite. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07 Julia Hartz And we started to pay really close attention to how COVID could impact, particularly the United States, where two-thirds of our business is produced. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:53 Guy Raz I mean, you aren't just the founder, co-founder of the company or the CEO. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:45 Guy Raz She's seeing a lot of Eventbrite, um, events for more and more for free virtual events. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:54 Guy Raz Live events are the backbone of Eventbrite, which was founded by Julia Hartz in 2006. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:12 Julia Hartz Well, when we came into the crisis in the first week or so, you know, I was really, really focused on what we had done in the previous year, because the decisions that we had made to run the company, to run it responsibly, to preserve the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:52 Guy Raz I mean, this is, you've had to, I mean, you had dealt with the 2008, 2009 financial crisis, but you're a much bigger company now, you're a public company, you're much more visible, and this is a worse crisis. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:34 Guy Raz Julia Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite.
- ▶ 23:41 Guy Raz That's an excerpt from my conversation with Julia Hartz, the founder of Eventbrite.
Eventbrite: Julia Hartz
- ▶ 1:36 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how Julia Hartz and her husband Kevin launched their ticketing platform Eventbrite from a closet in a San Francisco warehouse, and today, manage events in a 170 countries around the world.
- ▶ 3:32 Guy Raz And while Ticketmaster is still the biggest player in the ticket space, Eventbrite is no slouch. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:43 Julia Hartz So it's important to know that we spent less than a quarter of a million dollars in the first two years of Eventbrite being up and running and operating. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:13 Guy Raz When, when the idea for what Eventbrite would start to kind of take shape in 2006, like when you describe it to people and they're like, hey, what are you working on? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:57 Guy Raz So like in 2006, right, in January 2006, it was essentially the three of you, and what was Eventbrite for, like, just a regular person? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:52 Guy Raz And who was using Eventbrite in the early days? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:25 Julia Hartz However, we were very intentional to roll out Eventbrite in a way that could be used by anyone anywhere in the world.
- ▶ 28:29 Julia Hartz I mean, it's interesting that the median ticket price on Eventbrite is around 40 dollars, so it's actually higher than you would think. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:01 Julia Hartz Well, I think that there was an equal amount of confidence or comfort in Kevin's track record because, again, you know, he had founded a company prior to Eventbrite, Zoom, and we had that as an advantage. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:03 Guy Raz Coming up after the break, the simple strategy that Julia and Kevin used to convince some of those VCs to give Eventbrite another shot, and also why the founders later took the company public, even though lots of people told them not to do…
- ▶ 35:46 Guy Raz So it's the end of 2008, and Julia and her co-founders have just made 27 pitches to VCs, and none of them are interested in investing in Eventbrite. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:32 Julia Hartz So, one thing that happened was the recession was looming and then finally upon us, and we started to see people who had lost their jobs start to use Eventbrite to teach their skills to other people in order to make a living. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:07 Julia Hartz So from the first month that we started working on Eventbrite, we would have our revenue goal up on the whiteboard, and every month we would meet in a quasi-board meeting to report on our progress against revenue.
- ▶ 47:55 Julia Hartz I mean, again, one of the, I think, unique things about Eventbrite is that we haven't had to pivot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:23 Julia Hartz Um, you know, I, I wasn't hesitant to step up because it was the right thing for the company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:37 Guy Raz Um, that year, September that year, Eventbrite goes public. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:50 Julia Hartz Of the loss that he incurred, and that for me is, you know, a great motivator, and, and, ah, but I look at it as it's my responsibility to grow the value of Eventbrite, and if you can't take the heat of that responsibility, then you…
- ▶ 54:30 Guy Raz When you are, how many people work for Eventbrite now around the world? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:13 Guy Raz That's Julia Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite. 3 times in the scene