Eventbrite: Julia Hartz

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In the early 2000s, Julia Hartz was helping develop TV shows for MTV and FX Networks, and seemed headed for a promising career in television. All of that changed in 2003 when she went to a wedding and found herself sitting next to a serial entrepreneur named Kevin. They started dating, and Julia eventually quit her job and joined Kevin in the Bay Area. In 2006 they married, and co-founded the online ticketing service Eventbrite out of a warehouse closet. 14 years after launch, Eventbrite is a publicly-traded company with 1,100 employees and offices around the world. PLUS in our post-script "How You Built That," Tomo Delaney describes how raising two picky eaters led him to create Noshi For Kids; brightly colored fruit puree that kids can paint with. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:27.0	Hey, I am so excited to tell you about two how I built this live shows coming to San Francisco and Seattle in just a few weeks.
0:36.0	In San Francisco, I'll be speaking with Ken Grossman, founder of Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, that's happening Friday, March 27th at the Sydney Goldstein Theatre.
0:45.0	In that same week, on Thursday, the 26th of March, I'll be in Seattle at Beneroyah Hall talking to the founders of Subpop,
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1:14.0	Head to nprpresents.org, and I hope to see you there.
1:18.0	All of a sudden, I was packing up my window office on the 42nd floor of Fox Plaza, which is the iconic building in Century City.
1:31.0	And literally the next day, pushing saw horses and plywood into a windowless phone closet in a warehouse with Kevin.
1:40.0	And I remember pushing a saw horse behind him thinking, did I really have done this?
1:45.0	From NPR, it's how I built this.
1:51.0	The show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.
2:03.0	I'm Guy Razz, and on today's show, How Julia Hearts and her husband Kevin launched their ticketing platform Eventbrite from a closet in a San Francisco warehouse.
2:12.0	And today, manage events in 170 countries around the world.
2:23.0	There's a famous quote by Warren Buffett about his investment strategy.
2:27.0	When he looks for investment opportunities, he looks for quote,
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