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.
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
We are blessed to not have violence at our shows. People come to our shows and act a clown. When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows. I'm sure they have fights at Miley Cyrus shows.
Mr. Mayor. I've decided the best place for the '68 [Democratic] convention is Chicago! You are the one who can handle it!
The 1968 convention turned out to be a debacle with police riots in the streets and parks.
Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
Leading Eventbrite has taught me a lot about how to connect with people to drive results.
The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography.
Diamond Resorts delivers world-class events and high-caliber hospitality; I look forward to representing Diamond and performing in the 2017 Diamond Resorts Concert Series to help make vacations unforgettable for their members.
Hugh [Evans] called us. And obviously this has been on our radar for all the years it's been going on. And each year obviously reaches more and more people, and it's high profile. Hugh reached out to our manager just down the street. And we said we're here [ on GLOBAL CITIZEN in the Central Park] to help and do whatever we can.
I've got some real diehards down in New Zealand; I look after them and make sure they always get tickets.
For me, I want 10 perfect events.
I went to a technology conference in Germany, and there were these beautiful, model-like women standing there in front of the products. I asked a question, and she had no clue what the product was. She had to call someone from the back to explain it to me. To me, that's using a woman as an object. To me, that's totally wrong.
When I'm in front of a crowd, I don't think 'Oh, there's some hard-core metalheads and some alternative fringe types, so we should be okay.'
At some major events - your birth and death, for example - while you may be the center of attention, the events are managed by others and are more important to the people around you.
If I'm doing an event, if it's a charity event, where it's a walk-around event, where I gotta put a thousand small plates out in the course of a four-hour event, I gotta make sure I can do something that I know I can produce, that's going to be consistent and good all night long.
The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.
There's been times where I sold the place out, and I walked in and the guy's like, 'Uh, ID?' 'No, you can't ID me, man. I just sold this place out.' People are just doing their jobs, but I think if you're working the door at a venue where there's a headliner, you should at least be like, 'OK, this is the dude.'
As founder of Eventbrite, I've interviewed almost every single person we've hired.
The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.
There's so many things that can go wrong, and if I'm merely playing and not hosting a festival, none of those things reflect on me.
We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.
I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.
One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.
News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
I want to know that I am putting 30,000 individuals in seats in arenas. That's my goal.