Top 66 Julia Hartz Quotes

Live experiences are more than fundamental – they’re transformative.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I have not always been a risk taker.

I live, breathe, and die by what kind of company we’re creating.

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

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

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

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

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.

Four Seasons’ legendary brand epitomizes the highest standards for service in the hospitality industry worldwide.

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

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

I encourage women who are starting families to think about the five-year horizon. The first few years of parenthood are really hard, but if you stick it out, it gets easier.

It’s important for founders to think about how they would build their company from scratch – again.

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 think people are intelligent, empathetic, multi-dimensional.

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.

I’ve done everything from traditional yoga to Bikram yoga to Pilates.

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.

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.

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

Getting to profitability does not mean all our problems are solved.

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.

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

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

Legacies are built on the practices of your company.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

We wanted to harness the power of technology to make it possible for anyone to sell tickets to any type of event.

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

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.

There’s a lot of clarity in hindsight.

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.

Creating a strong company culture isn’t just good business. It’s the right thing to do, and it makes your company better for all stakeholders – employees, management, and customers.

I get extremely detail-oriented. In my most stressed-out days, I get way more focused on those details than anyone should be.

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

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

Millennials are the experiences generation.

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.

There’s always a little bit of friction when you’re trying to democratize an industry.

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.

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.

If you have a cofounder, one of the benefits is you’ll get from point A to point B two times faster.

The majority of our happiness at work is determined by the people who surround us. Strong teams produce more content, launch more products, and sign more contracts. And most importantly, they have fun doing it.

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 founder of Eventbrite, I’ve interviewed almost every single person we’ve hired.

My mom always instilled in me that it was braver to ask for help when you need it. That has absolutely stuck with me over the years but became even more important in practice once I became a mother. It may sound trite, but the concept of ‘it takes a village’ really could not be more true.

To force a culture creates something that is inherently not sustainable. It does not evolve forward.

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.

There is no finish line to leadership.

I wasn’t the kid with the lemonade stand.

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