Hartz: Building for tech builders and writers yields the best product feedback
Julia Hartz · Let your customers be your scout (with Eventbrite's Julia Hartz) | Masters of Scale · Aug 9, 2023 · at 13:34
Julia Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite, describes how targeting tech bloggers and builders as early adopters accelerated Eventbrite's product iteration.
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“Let me tell you, like, there's no better way to get great feedback than to build a product for people who build them themselves and or write about them all the time.”
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