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Julia Hartz

Disciplines:
technology leadership
management/event management
e-commerce/marketplace operations

Summary

American entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of Eventbrite, the event ticketing and management platform, who led the company through its 2018 IPO and the near-fatal collapse of the events industry during COVID-19.

Core Contribution

Built Eventbrite into the dominant self-service event ticketing platform and led its restructuring during COVID — when events disappeared entirely — maintaining the company as a going concern and achieving a recovery that preserved the platform's market position.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • COVID as Existential Leadership Test (led Eventbrite through the complete elimination of its core market — live events — without bankruptcy, navigating massive layoffs while maintaining organizational coherence for the recovery)

Historical Influences

Kevin Hartz

Intellectual Lineage

Silicon Valley Startup Culture Marketplace TechnologyTicketing Industry

Contemporaries & Peers

Brian Chesky Travis Kalanick Drew Houston

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Eventbrite self-service ticketing model

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