Quotes by Julia Hartz - Page 2

If you can't see an example of what you could be, you really aren't going to have that extra incentive to break through any types of barriers.
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Barriers
Break
Example
Extra
Incentive
Types
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If you want to build a sustainable culture, you have to have a strong philosophy and then let people do with it what they will and be OK with that.
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Build
Culture People Will
Sustainable
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I think there's real value in having a founder CEO. Obviously, I'm biased, but I'm driven by a purpose and a mission and a vision, not just profits.
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Biased
Ceo
Driven
Purpose
Real Value
Vision
Founder
Mission
Obviously
Profits
Value
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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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Los Angeles
Angeles
Appealed
Blend
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For a global company, it is imperative to respect and honor local culture and weave that into the core company values rather than the other way around.
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Imperative
Weave
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For the first two years of Eventbrite, all the work was done by just the three founders: me, my husband, Kevin, and our chief technology officer, Renaud Visage.
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Founders
Work Technology Me
Chief
Officer
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Our platform is self-service, so we enable people to host events themselves. The biggest events tend to be the free ones. We had 100,000 at a salsa congress in Mexico.
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Mexico
Enable
Platform
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I studied broadcast journalism at Pepperdine University. After a short career in television with MTV and later on at FX Network, I found my true calling in Eventbrite.
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Journalism
Mtv
Studied
Broadcast
Network
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At Eventbrite, we value quality results over everything else. So while working late is acknowledged, at the end of the day, I care more about the results you're producing.
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End Of The Day Value Day
Acknowledged
Everything Else
Producing
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I encourage women who are starting families to think about the five-year horizon. The first few years of parenthood are really hard, but if you stick it out, it gets easier.
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Horizon
Parenthood
Five-Year
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Great leadership and great companies aren't built overnight, and they're not built without capital. And capital can sometimes be counter-productive to building a great culture.
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Capital
Overnight
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If I were to think of myself as a role model, I would say that it's really important to realize when you are a role model and to be willing to give advice, share how you do things.
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Role Model
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I think I lead with empathy and connection to our people. I find that the most effective leadership style for me is to just talk and listen. It sounds simple, but it's so effective.
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Effective
Our People
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Creating a strong company culture isn't just good business. It's the right thing to do, and it makes your company better for all stakeholders - employees, management, and customers.
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Business
Creating
Customers
Management
Right Thing
Strong
Good Business Better
Employees
Stakeholders
The Right Thing
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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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Democratization
Notion
Transforming
Bringing
Finds
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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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Cookery
Together Live People
Together People Way
Reinvent
Ticket
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I think having a visionary CEO is awesome, and visionary leadership is one thing, but you also need checks and balances on whether this company can withstand a very honest and critical look at itself.
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Leadership
Ceo
Checks
Critical
Honest
Awesome
Balances
Checks And Balances
Visionary
Withstand
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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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Founders
Great Idea
Growth
Seems
Significant
Time Good Great
Mistakes
Biggest
Incremental
Measurable
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When we set out to build Eventbrite, we had to face many challenges and come up with creative solutions to get past them. Each time we learned new ways to cope, we became a stronger and more cohesive team.
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New Ways
Solutions
Time Face Challenges
Cohesive
Cope
Each Time
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The majority of our happiness at work is determined by the people who surround us. Strong teams produce more content, launch more products, and sign more contracts. And most importantly, they have fun doing it.
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Contracts
Determined
Surround
Happiness Work People
By The People
Have Fun
Importantly
Launch
Teams
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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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Core Values
Versus
Existed
Perceived
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As far as funding and building a team, you being romantically involved with your cofounder really shouldn't play a factor in how you run the company and how you create a team or find resources. It's all about the partnership.
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Funding
Partnership
Factor
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I didn't play any extreme sports growing up. I never surfed, and I grew up in Santa Cruz. I was very good at doing what I was told, taking direction, and staying middle of the road. I mean, they called me 'grandma' in college.
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Cruz
Extreme Sports
Grandma
Santa
Staying
Good Sports Me
Extreme
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I don't have just one role model - rather, pieces of inspiration from many different entrepreneurs. One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that it naturally enables you to build a village of advisors and role models.
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Great Things
Just One
Models
Village
Advisor
Enables
Entrepreneurs
Role Model
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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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Niche
Underdog
Users
Bacon
Consumer
Organizing
Festival
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One of the reasons why we were so successful in integrating with Facebook was because we saw people using Facebook to promote their event and link back to Eventbrite before Facebook Connect and before the event's API was even available.
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Integrating
Link
Promote
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Getting over the stigma of needing to appear as if I do it all myself took about 12 months. I finally realized that the only way to be a successful, happy mother, founder, wife, and daughter was to accept the help that was being offered to me.
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Stigma
Appear
Myself Wife Me
Founder
Needing
Offered
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I started my career in Hollywood, where I learned the rumors were true - having success there really was dictated by how who you knew, not what you knew. I grew frustrated by the fact that careers could be made and broken by relationships alone.
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Careers
Frustrated
Dictated
Rumors
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Being an entrepreneur can be learned, and that is exactly what I have done. You don't have to be born with it or have had the 'lemonade stand.' But, you do need to have the passion, devotion, conviction, and sheer will and drive to make it happen.
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Conviction
Devotion
Entrepreneur
Lemonade
Make It Happen
Sheer
Exactly What
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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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Great Results
Stripping
Environments
Focusing
Make A Difference
Toughest
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I am excited to be working with the dedicated Four Seasons board and leadership team to build upon their reputation for industry-leading customer experiences while seeking out innovative ways to leverage technology that will help spur additional growth.
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Dedicated
Innovative
Reputation
Seasons
Seeking
Additional
Board
Customer
Leverage
Spur
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Showing that you consistently have their best interests at heart not only motivates your people to do their best work; it also builds goodwill that you may need to draw on when the going gets tough and you have to lean on one another to find the horizon.
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Consistently
Goodwill
Horizon
Best Work Heart
Best Interests
Builds
Lean
Motivates
Showing
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Since the earliest days of Eventbrite, we've made our people core to our mission. Our culture is an ever-evolving manifestation of those on our team. As people join, we believe in earning their trust by demonstrating we'll embrace them and help them grow.
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Demonstrating
Embrace
Manifestation
Earliest
Join
Mission
Our People
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I think there's a fine line, and once you cross it, you are in a dangerous territory of overhyping your company, your service, and your product and sort of under-delivering. But I think we probably could have been a little more overtly confident in the early days.
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Fine
Territory
Confident
Cross
Early Days
Fine Line
Product
Service
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I know my daughter was dealt a very, very good birth card, but sometimes I feel like I want to honor the fact that she also drew a lottery that she didn't get to choose, which is that there is this thing called Eventbrite in our lives, and it sometimes takes precedence.
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Birth
Lottery
Precedence
Card
Dealt
Drew
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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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Concepts
Manage
Mtv
Alongside
Consist
Creators
Deciding
Pilot
Pitches
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We live in an experience-hungry society with advanced event technology and broad social reach at our fingertips. These external factors offers an ideal environment for organizers to create a connection with a broader set of people and maximize each interaction with their audience.
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Factors
Fingertips
Offers
Advanced
External
Broad
Ideal
Maximize
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My mom always instilled in me that it was braver to ask for help when you need it. That has absolutely stuck with me over the years but became even more important in practice once I became a mother. It may sound trite, but the concept of 'it takes a village' really could not be more true.
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Stuck
Village
Mom Mother Always
Braver
Instilled
Trite
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I truly believe there is this confidence gap, at least for me. You have to 'manipulate' yourself to get over it,and I do think it has something to do with being a female. If you live in fear or doubt and have that confidence gap, you are simply not going to achieve your full potential and what you know you can achieve.
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Full Potential
Manipulate
Fear Believe Me
Gap
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I founded Eventbrite when I was 25 and had exactly five professional years under my belt. Perspective was lacking; idealistic views were not. I really had no idea what I was getting myself into, and I'm beyond thrilled I took the leap from a comfortable corporate career into the abyss of founder-hood and entrepreneurship.
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Abyss
Corporate
Entrepreneurship
Idealistic
Lacking
Leap
No Idea
Views
Belt
Thrilled
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There has been an intention since day one that it's as important to us that we build profits as much as we build a wonderful culture and a lasting legacy of a great company. We've created this inclusive environment that's very thoughtful in terms of how we can create allyship, how we create mentorship, and what kind of voices are heard.
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Intention
Lasting
Legacy
Thoughtful
Day One
Inclusive
Profits
Voices
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