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.
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
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
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
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,”