Ticketmaster, every mention

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▶ 27:50 Stephen Starr 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. 2 times in the scene

▶ 0:46 Guy Raz We first had you on the show in 2020 and, of course, told us a story about how you and your husband, Kevin, went up against, you know, huge giants like Ticketmaster to build an alternative ticketing and events platform.

▶ 56:42 Bill Shufelt It was like, it was like a concert going online on Ticketmaster.

▶ 11:12 Luis von Ahn It's this idea of a captcha where it's basically these distorted characters that you have to type whenever you're buying tickets on Ticketmaster or getting, you know, an email account or stuff like that. 2 times in the scene

▶ 20:43 Ethan Diamond And in the meantime, you know, one of the crazier monopolies that exists between live nation, biggest venue owner, promoter, manager of artists and ticket master, um, and, you know, clear channel slash I heart media that owns radio, right.

▶ 11:00 Luis von Ahn It's this idea of a captcha where it's basically these distorted characters that you have to type whenever you're buying tickets on Ticketmaster or getting, you know, an email account or stuff like that.
▶ 14:14 Luis von Ahn You know, when you had to get an email account, when you had to enter a comment on a blog, uh, when you, or you had to buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you had to enter one of these.

▶ 3:00 Guy Raz And in kind of a similar way, when Julia and Kevin Hartz decided to get into event ticketing, the obvious competition, of course, was a massive company called Ticketmaster, a company with lots of control over large events at stadiums and… 4 times in the scene
▶ 22:07 Guy Raz Like, was it, was it just Ticketmaster?
▶ 26:29 Guy Raz Because, I mean, that's how Ticketmaster, more or less, or credit card companies work, right?
▶ 32:25 Julia Hartz Because if you have the reference point of, oh, you're just trying to build a Ticketmaster? 4 times in the scene

▶ 42:48 Guy Raz I guess it was Ticketmaster at the time, but which is now part of IAC. 2 times in the scene
▶ 45:22 Guy Raz You're essentially working for Ticketmaster, and how did it feel to work in a bigger corporate environment at that point? 6 times in the scene
▶ 47:37 Guy Raz So what made you decide that you wanted to finally leave Ticketmaster? 2 times in the scene

▶ 9:09 John Foley So, uh, I went back to, uh, to what was then IAC, Ticketmaster City Search, the people that I'd worked with prior. 4 times in the scene

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