HomeUncategorizedEventBrite CEO Julia Hartz: Founded the Company with her Husband and it Became Successful Innovations EventBrite CEO Julia Hartz: Founded the Company with her Husband and it Became Successful “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Sharon Begley A lot of events happen daily and a lot of them wouldn’t be known by those who need them, not because of lack of publicity but lack of reach. You need it, it is happening but you do not know it – what an unfortunate occurrence. This problem would have gone on, uncurbed, if not for JULIA HARTZ I for one get mails of events from this company and i do not even know how they got my email address. Don’t you? JULIA HARTZ Born on November 20, 1979 at Santa Cruz, California, she is an American entrepreneur, investor, and the co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite, a global ticketing and event technology platform. She is best known for her leadership at Eventbrite and empowering women in the technology industry. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Telecommunication from Pepperdine University. After studying communication and broadcast journalism, Hartz began her career as a development executive at MTV from 2001 to 2003 and at FX Networks from 2003 to 2005, she helped oversee some shows. An investor in Minted, Chairish, Playa Capital Company, Tamara Mellon and Color Genomics. She serves on the Board of directors of the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, and University of California, San Francisco’s Board of overseers. In 2006, she co-founded Eventbrite with Kevin Hartz, her husband and Renaud Visage, and Renaud Visage, Hartz was appointed CEO and became member of Eventbrite Board of directors in April 2016. Eventbrite is an event management and ticketing website. The service allows users to create, browse, and promote local events. The service charges a fee from the event organizers in exchange for online ticketing services, unless the event is free. Eventbrite opened their first international office in the United Kingdom in 2012. The company has local offices in Nashville, London, Cork, Amsterdam, Dublin, Berlin, Melbourne, Mendoza, Madrid and São Paulo. The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange on September 20, 2018 under the ticker symbol EB. In 2016, Julia became the CEO of Eventbrite, while Kevin took the role of executive chairman. In March 2017, Eventbrite purchased D.C.-based event tech startup Nvite for an undisclosed sum. On June 9, 2017 Eventbrite purchased Ticketfly from Pandora for $200 million. The acquisition was meant to strengthen Eventbrite’s position in the live music market, but according to observers, executives were still struggling to integrate Ticketfly as of 2019. In April 2018, Eventbrite acquired the Spanish ticketing service Ticketea, citing its events discovery platform and “robust ecosystem of third-party integrations” as being advantageous. Later that month, Eventbrite was subjected to criticism over an update to its merchants’ agreement, which specified that the service had the right to attend and record footage of any aspect of an event for any purpose, and that event organizers were “responsible for obtaining, at your own cost, all third party permissions, clearances, and licenses necessary to secure Eventbrite the permissions and rights.” Following public backlash, Eventbrite chose to remove the passage entirely. The company stated that it wanted the option to “work with individual organizers to secure video and photos at their events for marketing and promotional purposes”, but admitted that the clauses were too broadly-worded. In August 2018, Picatic, a Vancouver-based ticketing and event registration platform, was acquired by Eventbrite. Hartz is one of the most recognized female leaders in technology. She has been honored twice as one of Fortune magazine’s 40 Under 40 business leaders, Inc.’s 35 under 35, and one of Fortune’s most powerful women entrepreneurs. The Aspen Institute also recognized Hartz as one of the 2018 Class of Henry Crown Fellows. She often speaks on the subject of building and scaling a global business, entrepreneurship, and the power of human connection through live experiences. Support PisonTechAfrica.com For inspiring tech content and articles, PisonTechAfrica.com is the platform to go. Great content takes a lot of resources; we are poised to motivate young start-ups and give them leverage with our platform. It is a platform for inspiring tech entrepreneurs to display their talents. Africa is the next big thing for technology. PisonTechAfrica.com is the tech media platform committed to positioning Africa in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Donate Ayinla Oluwajumoke Toyosi Share This Previous ArticleFlutterwave: The Making of the African Unicorn Next ArticleHelping Young Girls to Code Beyond Perfection April 19, 2021
