Can You Do It All? Eventbrite Cofounder And Mother Julia Hartz (Part 6)

SM: How many paid events versus free events does Eventbrite do in a year? JH: Last year we did 46,000 paid events and 77,000 free events. We hope to grow both numbers. People have asked why we do not charge for free events, but we have always had a gut feeling that it is very

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Can You Do It All? Eventbrite Cofounder And Mother Julia Hartz (Part 5)

SM: During the early days, who kept the Eventbrite platform alive while Alan worked for Xoom? JH: Initially I did that just by answering customer service questions. Now that I think back that is when I began having dialogue with our customers.

Can You Do It All? Eventbrite Cofounder And Mother Julia Hartz (Part 4)

SM: Is Kevin significantly older than you? JH: Ten years. I met him when I was twenty-three and he was thirty-three. It was more significant for me because it curtailed a lot of mistakes I would have made. For him, at thirty-three, he had just begun to know exactly what he wanted. Our relationship began

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Can You Do It All? Eventbrite Cofounder And Mother Julia Hartz (Part 3)

SM: Why should it feel was wrong if he was not pulling his weight? You don’t get paid to exist. JH: Now as a manager I do not feel that it was the wrong decision, but I did not like the fact that I was involved. Either way, I graduated on a Friday and started

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Can You Do It All? Eventbrite Cofounder And Mother Julia Hartz (Part 2)

SM: How did your middle-class background impact you at Pepperdine? Did you feel as though you belonged? JH: I went through stages. At first, I went through an envy stage. I have never told anybody this but hopefully you will understand. I felt like wealthy females always had this look on their face that was

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Can You Do It All? Eventbrite Cofounder And Mother Julia Hartz (Part 1)

Julia is cofounder and president of Eventbrite and is responsible for the overall vision and strategy of the company. She is a former television network executive and comes to Eventbrite by way of Hollywood. During her tenure in the television industry, Julia was a creative executive at FX Networks and helped to supervise “The Shield,”

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Built To Enjoy: Andrew Fox’s 100% Owned $30M ClubPlanet (Part 7)

SM: You did $30 million last year. What do you expect to do next year? AF: We believe that revenue next year, based on what we already have coming in and a new deal we have, will easily surpass $45 million. If we keep having these 30%-plus increase years, then by 2013 we are going

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Built To Enjoy: Andrew Fox’s 100% Owned $30M ClubPlanet (Part 6)

SM: Another market that has improved a lot over the past ten years is the Latin dance market. AF: That we have something for. We started NocheLatina two years ago, and that is exactly what it is from. It is for second- and third-generation English-speaking Hispanics. That business is robust.