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

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" What we've found was that people were utilizing Eventbrite to turn their passions into revenue-generating ventures. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" To be a true leader, I needed to better understand my unique strengths and how to apply them across the company as we grew. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was a dancer and performer. "

" I'm thrilled to share the story of my journey in building Eventbrite and what I've learned along the way as a working mother and entrepreneur. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Ticketing is a people-intensive business to get it right on a global scale. "

" 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. "

" Eventbrite is 50-50 male-female, and this has been accomplished organically. "

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

" Millennials are the experiences generation. "

" 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. "