Julia Hartz Quotes

Julia Hartz

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : November 20, 1979

During college, in Los Angeles, I interned all over Hollywood. Development roles appealed to me; they were a perfect blend of business and creativity.

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Working in MTV's development team, my days would consist of pitches and deciding which concepts we wanted to buy. We would then develop those into a pilot. Very few ended up making it to a full series, but if they did, I would manage the project alongside the show's creators.

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Being a female head of a successful tech company means that I'm in a pretty niche category.

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I have not always been a risk taker.

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My goal is to create one of the greatest companies that's ever existed, and that has everything to do with the people, the culture, and what our core values are versus what we build or how we're perceived out in the market.

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I live, breathe, and die by what kind of company we're creating.

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Our team finds motivation in knowing that we're transforming the ticketing industry, this notion that we're bringing democratization to an industry and disrupting it using technology.

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I think people are intelligent, empathetic, multi-dimensional.

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Your first company is like your first baby.You have this unconditional, irrational love.

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To force a culture creates something that is inherently not sustainable. It does not evolve forward.

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One of the biggest mistakes that founders can make is doing something that maybe seems like a great idea, and seems like a good use of time, but actually isn't measurable, significant, incremental growth.

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It's important for founders to think about how they would build their company from scratch - again.

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I was a dancer and performer.

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I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

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Each company is different because they get their DNA from the founders.

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I've done everything from traditional yoga to Bikram yoga to Pilates.

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We always had a sense that we were the underdog. There's lots of competition and niche players. But we have every type of event on Eventbrite, whether you're a consumer or you're organizing a bacon festival. Our identity is our users.

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We wanted to harness the power of technology to make it possible for anyone to sell tickets to any type of event.

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If you think about stripping away 80 percent of the things that don't matter and focusing on the the 20 percent that will actually make a difference, I think you'll find great results even in the toughest of situations and the harshest of environments.

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We thought we could reinvent the way people came together for live events. We wanted to ticket everything from a five-person yoga class to a 10-person cookery class to a fashion event.

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