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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love just being home with the kids and, seeing what they do when they're bored and then I just follow. "

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

" Work does come home with us, but home also comes to work. Our kids are regulars at Eventbrite's HQ in San Francisco. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" One of the most brilliant parts of being a first-time founder is that you experience everything for the first time. It never gets old. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think a universal feeling that we all share is that live experiences create indelible memories. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "