Xconomy Xchange: Eventbrite and the Online-to-Offline Economy—A Conversation with Kevin and Julia Hartz & Friends August 7, 2012

At this Xconomy forum—we’ve nicknamed it the Event Event—you’ll hear tips on building online-to-offline (O2O) businesses from Eventbrite’s co-founders, the energetic husband-and-wife team of Kevin and Julia Hartz. By creating tools that anyone can use to promote an event and sell tickets, their company is fostering a new economy around events as small as a yoga class or networking event or as large as a Black Eyed Peas concert. The Hartzes will explain how, since founding Eventbrite in 2006, they’ve managed to sell 60 million tickets, raise nearly $80 million in venture capital, and create the first serious challenge to ticketing giants like Ticketmaster.

As a special bonus, we’ll talk with an outside board member at Eventbrite, and we’ll ask Kevin Hartz—an angel investor who was one of the earliest backers of PayPal, back in 1999—to explain why he has temporarily shut his wallet to new startups. (“When I see a massive number of new investors and carpetbaggers coming in, it’s time to get out,” Hartz recently told Wired.) Join us for this unique evening of discussion and learning.