Renaud Visage, Kevin and Julia Hartz (Eventbrite)

Google UK - 1-13 St Giles High Street London, WC2H 8AG London
Wed, Jun 18, 2014, 7:45 PM (BST)

About this event

Eventbrite is a self-service ticketing platform that people use to create events, sell tickets and manage registrations for events of all types and sizes. Eventbrite has processed 200 million tickets for organizers in almost 200 countries. Nearly 100,000 organizers around the world use Eventbrite each month to manage, promote and sell tickets and registrations to all types of events — from small classes, book signings and networking gatherings, to concerts, festivals and conventions for tens of thousands of attendees. The events platform makes it easy for anyone to discover events via their website or mobile app, and easily share events with friends. In this way, Eventbrite brings communities together by encouraging people to connect through live experiences. Initially, Eventbrite's concept was pitched on selling tickets through internet search engines but the start-up boomed in the wake of the social media explosion of the mid-2000s. The evolution of mobile phones and the elimination of the requirement of paper tickets also provided a boost. Eventbrite's investors include DAG Ventures, Sequoia Capital, T. Rowe Price, Tenaya Capital and Tiger Global.

Speaker

Renaud Visage, Kevin and Julia Hartz

Eventbrite

Founded in 2006, Eventbrite sold $1 billion of tickets last year and has a total funding of $200 million. Kevin (Paypal, Xoom), Julia (MTV, FX Networks) and Renaud (Zing Networks) built an award-winning company culture. Their company was voted Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area for four years running.