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Event Espresso powers over $100M in monthly WordPress ticket sales

Seth Shoultes · 1450 20k Customers and $1m in ARR Event Management Company Started as Wife Project · Jul 14, 2019 · at 3:59

Seth Shoultes, founder of ticketing software Event Espresso, discusses his platform's monthly gross ticket volume with host Nathan Latka.

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“We're also powering over a hundred million ticket sales per month from our Venespresso platform for WordPress.”

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Event Espresso and Event Smart generate $80,000 monthly revenue
“Between the two platforms, we're bringing in about 80,000 a month.”
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Event Espresso has roughly 20,000 paying customers
“We have about Around, I think, 20,000 paying customers.”
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WordPress had only 5,000 total plugins in 2009, says Seth Shoultes
“At the time there was only a 5000 plugins, you know, total in the entire WordPress market space.”
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Disclosure
Event Espresso reached $20,000 monthly revenue when Shoultes quit his job
“The company was profitable enough that I could just quit. I could quit my job and pay myself and pay myself. How much was it at that? How much was it doing a month? I think we were doing like 20,000 a month.”
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Disclosure
Event Espresso reached scale entirely bootstrapped without outside capital
“Yeah, we're completely bootstrapped.”
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