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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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" 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. "

Julia Hartz

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" At Eventbrite, we care about the whole you, not just the employee you. "

" Legacies are built on the practices of your company. "

" 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. "

" What I didn't appreciate about myself is that I'm good at coaching leaders. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" That seems to be my superpower - really understanding what motivates people. "

" Many tech companies experience steep growth curves that require them to build their teams at breakneck speeds. "

" Live experiences are more than fundamental - they're transformative. "

Julia Hartz

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

Julia Hartz

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" Acquiring customers at the start is one of the hardest things you'll ever experiences as an entrepreneur. "

" 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. "

" People are multi-dimensional and crave a multi-sensory experience. "

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

" 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. "

Julia Hartz

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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. "

" My worst day is away from the office, when I'm traveling and not with the Britelings. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" If you're going to be an entrepreneur, most likely you're going to be Type A - stubborn. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The gender parity is something that has been organic to Eventbrite since we started building a team. "

" It's incredibly important to be - once you do have a product - acutely observational about the trends. "