2006
Early Eventbrite worked from a space in an old warehouse building in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood.
“And we moved in together and we found a space in Potero Hill, which was in an old warehouse building.”
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Eventbrite
15 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2008
Eventbrite's founders met 27 venture firms during the fall of 2008 and were rejected by all of them.
“We met with 27 venture firms and we received 27 no's.”
2009
Eventbrite received its Series A term sheet from Sequoia Capital at the end of 2009.
“And it was Sequoia Capital and Ruloff again identifying that we were really seeing that lift. And we received our Series A term sheet at the end of 2009.”
2018
Eventbrite decided in January 2018 to begin an intensive IPO process, which took about nine months.
“And we decided in January of 2018 that we would be going into high gear on the IPO process.”
2018
Eventbrite went public on September 20, 2018, which the speaker says was a market high day.
“No, we ended up going public on the 20th. And it was the market high day. We ended up going on a great day.”
2018
Eventbrite's IPO worked with Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan and was supported by Allen & Company.
“So going to each bank, we worked with Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. And we were supported by Allen & Company.”
2018
Julia Hartz says NYSE president Stacey Cunningham told them the exchange had found no archived photo with as many women executives on the podium as Eventbrite's.
“the president of the New York Stock Exchange, Stacey Cunningham, said that they had looked through the archives and had not yet found a picture of that many women executives on the podium.”
2020
Ben Gilbert says Eventbrite's quarterly net revenue fell from about $80 million to about $8 million in the second quarter of 2020.
“And so you see that $80 million number drop to like $8 million in that quarter.”
2020
Eventbrite's gross ticket sales were over $4.5 billion in 2019 and fell to zero and then negative in March 2020 because refunds exceeded sales.
“our over $4.5 billion in gross ticket sales that we achieved in 2019 last year went actually in March to zero and actually negative”
2020
Eventbrite announced a native app integration with Zoom in mid-2020 to support online events.
“a few weeks ago, we announced our integration with Zoom in a native app.”
Undated
Kevin Hartz says the warehouse space ended up hosting about 12 other startup teams within a year.
“But we ended up in the span of a year collecting basically 12 other startup teams.”
Undated
Co-founder Renaud Visage spent most of the early period working from Paris, making Eventbrite a partly remote team.
“And he spent most of his year in Paris, actually. So we were a one-third remote team at the time.”
Undated
Eventbrite ticketed the first TechCrunch Disrupt, and its founders checked attendees in at the door.
“So we were the ticketing platform for the first TechCrunch Disrupt. And literally, we printed out a guest list and showed up and checked people in at the door”
Undated
Before raising venture funding, Eventbrite had reached tens of millions of dollars in gross ticket sales.
“It was tens of millions of what we call GTS gross ticket sales.”
Undated
Eventbrite's seed round was a few hundred thousand dollars, a large part of which was the founders' own money.
“So we rolled some of those PayPal proceeds. And so we raised a couple hundred thousand in a seed in a friends and family round.”
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