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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Your first company is like your first baby.You have this unconditional, irrational love. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wasn't the kid with the lemonade stand. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" We focus on Eventbrite and our family. That's how we spend our time, full stop. "

" 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. "

" 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. "