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Leading through radical change with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite

October 19, 2023 00:48:34 46.63 MB Downloads: 0

Back as the show’s first-ever ‘three-peat’ guest is Julia Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite. The events industry has been transformed by the past three years, giving Julia the opportunity to evolve Eventbrite to better serve its key customers — event creators. 

This week on How I Built This Lab, Julia goes back in time to review how she kept a ticketing service afloat when no one was buying tickets. Plus, thoughts on effective leadership from a public company CEO, and Julia’s tips for designing meetings that your colleagues actually want to go to. 

Be sure to listen to Eventbrite’s origin story told in February 2020, and Julia’s Resilience series dispatch from July 2020.


This episode was produced by Rommel Wood with music by Sam Paulson and Ramtin Arablouei.

It was edited by John Isabella with research by Kerry Thompson. Our audio engineer was Patrick Murray.

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