Advice Line with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite

Hello and welcome to the advice line on how I built this lab. I'm Guy Roz. This is the place where we help try to solve your business challenges. Each week, I'm joined by a legendary founder, a former guest on the show. who will help me try to help you. And if you're building something and you need advice, give us a call and you just might be the next guest on the show. Our number is 1-800-433-1298. Leave us a one minute message that tells us about your business and the issues or questions that you like help with. All right, let's get to it. Joining me today is Julia Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite. Julia, welcome back to the show. Guy, it's so great to be here. Uh it's great having you. We first had you on the show in twenty twenty and of course told us a story about how you and your husband Kevin went up against, you know, huge giants like Ticketmaster to build an alternative

Um and for those of you who haven't heard Julia's original episode of How I Built This uh from 2020, we will put a link to it in the show notes to check it out. It's a great episode. Julia, there was some pretty big news about Eventbrite recently, I'm gonna just mention. I know you're still in the negotiations phase, so you can't talk about it much, but it was announced that you were being acquired by an Italian uh uh company called Bending Spoons. Uh they also own or in the process of acquiring companies like Vimeo and AOL and Evernote and we transfer so congrats on that. I I I Uh wish you well and I hope it's it's gonna be a great outcome for everybody.

Thank you. Really appreciate it, Guy. It's you know, definitely a big transition. We made the decision uh to do what's best for our Eventbrite creators and the long term sustainability of our mission. And you know, twenty years in, I'm excited about this next chapter. Yeah. It might be too early to sort of discuss this, but do you think you're gonna remain CEO? Do you wanna do that for a while or I mean twenty years is a long time. Twenty years is A long time and it goes by really fast. So, you know, I'm I'm excited about supporting the mission and creators in however way I can. And I'm also at the stage of life where I feel like I'm reflecting on everything and appreciating What we've been through, I mean, thinking about the the fact that I was able to tell our story back in twenty twenty in the midst of COVID.

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