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Kevin Hartz

Disciplines:
financial technology/payments
technology entrepreneurship
value investing/angel investing

Summary

American entrepreneur and co-founder of Eventbrite and Xoom, early PayPal investor, and angel investor in Twitter, Airbnb, and Pinterest.

Core Contribution

Built Eventbrite by bootstrapping to profitability before raising venture capital — a discipline that shaped the company's operational rigor — and made some of Silicon Valley's most consequential early angel investments based on pattern recognition from PayPal.

Historical Influences

Max Levchin Peter Thiel

Intellectual Lineage

PayPal Alumni Network Silicon Valley Angel Investing

Contemporaries & Peers

Julia Hartz Ron Conway Jeremy Stoppelman

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Eventbrite Xoom

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