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.

Julia Hartz

Work Technology Leadership

Every day is sort of a jigsaw puzzle. You have to make sure that you're putting the most important things first.

You Very Tin

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.

Julia Hartz

Men Good Business

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.

Julia Hartz

Respect Way Values

Being productive at work is rewarding, and feeling supported, challenged, and appreciated allows us to be our most efficient selves.

Julia Hartz

Work War Us

I think entrepreneurship is combining a passion with the tenacity to problem-solve and the fearlessness to fail.

Julia Hartz

Fear Wit Think

If you have a cofounder, one of the benefits is you'll get from point A to point B two times faster.

Julia Hartz

Time You UN

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.

Julia Hartz

Work Technology Leadership

Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader.

Julia Hartz

Want Tan T

In television, things move quite slowly. It can take years to get a show off the ground.

Julia Hartz

Years Year Vision

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.

Julia Hartz

Car Years Year

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.

Julia Hartz

Great Age You

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.

Julia Hartz

Sports Good Yin

There is no finish line to leadership.

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Leadership T Ship

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.

Julia Hartz

Vision Value Us

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.

Julia Hartz

Anger Your You

Leading Eventbrite has taught me a lot about how to connect with people to drive results.

Julia Hartz

Wit Vent Taught

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.

Julia Hartz

You Types Type

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.

Julia Hartz

You Wit Will

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.

Julia Hartz

Men Great Wonderful

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

Julia Hartz

Men Business Wood

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.

Julia Hartz

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

Julia Hartz

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.

Julia Hartz

The beauty of being co-founders with your spouse is that we run our business and family together.

Julia Hartz

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.

Julia Hartz

Getting to profitability does not mean all our problems are solved.

Julia Hartz

Four Seasons' legendary brand epitomizes the highest standards for service in the hospitality industry worldwide.

Julia Hartz

Whether you're a founder, a leader, or an individual contributor, building a strong team is critical to your success.

Julia Hartz

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.

Julia Hartz

I get extremely detail-oriented. In my most stressed-out days, I get way more focused on those details than anyone should be.

Julia Hartz

Legacies are built on the practices of your company.

Julia Hartz

Millennials are the experiences generation.

Julia Hartz

I've been told many times that I should give up trying to find balance in my life, but I refuse.

Julia Hartz

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.

Julia Hartz

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

Julia Hartz

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.

Julia Hartz

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

Julia Hartz

Swaying to new beats, hearing old favorites, and drinking expensive beer are ageless pastimes.

Julia Hartz

I'm a very connected and passionate founder. And I do model transparency and openness and loyalty in my actions.

Julia Hartz

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.

Julia Hartz

As with any other crucial aspect of a growing business, you need the right technology and tools.

Julia Hartz

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.

Julia Hartz

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.

Julia Hartz

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.

Julia Hartz

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.

Julia Hartz

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.

Julia Hartz

I graduated from college and went straight into a job with MTV.

Julia Hartz

As founder of Eventbrite, I've interviewed almost every single person we've hired.

Julia Hartz

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.

Julia Hartz

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.

Julia Hartz