2003
Julia and Kevin Hartz met on May 24, 2003, got engaged on April 29, 2005, and married on June 3, 2006.
“Well, we met May 24th, 2003. We got engaged on April 29th, 2005. And we were married June 3rd, 2006.”
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Kevin Hartz
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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.”
Undated
Kevin Hartz's first company, Connect Group, which provided internet access to hotels, was acquired by LodgeNet.
“And it was acquired by a company called LodgeNet, which way back when was the way to get movies on demand.”
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
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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