Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Julia Hartz
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businesswoman Julia Hartz.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
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.
I love just being home with the kids and, seeing what they do when they're bored and then I just follow.
Getting to profitability does not mean all our problems are solved.
Work does come home with us, but home also comes to work. Our kids are regulars at Eventbrite's HQ in San Francisco.
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.
Whether you're a founder, a leader, or an individual contributor, building a strong team is critical to your success.
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 studied broadcast journalism at Pepperdine University. After a short career in television with MTV and later on at FX Network, I found my true calling in Eventbrite.
I graduated from college and went straight into a job with MTV.
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.
I wasn't the kid with the lemonade stand.
People are multi-dimensional and crave a multi-sensory experience.
Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader.
I think people are intelligent, empathetic, multi-dimensional.
During college, in Los Angeles, I interned all over Hollywood. Development roles appealed to me; they were a perfect blend of business and creativity.
What I didn't appreciate about myself is that I'm good at coaching leaders.
If you're going to be an entrepreneur, most likely you're going to be Type A - stubborn.
Legacies are built on the practices of your company.
It's important for founders to think about how they would build their company from scratch - again.
I know my daughter was dealt a very, very good birth card, but sometimes I feel like I want to honor the fact that she also drew a lottery that she didn't get to choose, which is that there is this thing called Eventbrite in our lives, and it sometimes takes precedence.
It's extremely easy to get people to share what events they are going to because events are inherently social.
Each company is different because they get their DNA from the founders.
Swaying to new beats, hearing old favorites, and drinking expensive beer are ageless pastimes.
Acquiring customers at the start is one of the hardest things you'll ever experiences as an entrepreneur.
I don't have just one role model - rather, pieces of inspiration from many different entrepreneurs. One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that it naturally enables you to build a village of advisors and role models.
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.
There's always a little bit of friction when you're trying to democratize an industry.
Eventbrite is 50-50 male-female, and this has been accomplished organically.
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.
I was a dancer and performer.
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 get extremely detail-oriented. In my most stressed-out days, I get way more focused on those details than anyone should be.
Four Seasons' legendary brand epitomizes the highest standards for service in the hospitality industry worldwide.
Millennials are the experiences generation.
I'm a very connected and passionate founder. And I do model transparency and openness and loyalty in my actions.
One of the biggest mistakes that founders can make is doing something that maybe seems like a great idea, and seems like a good use of time, but actually isn't measurable, significant, incremental growth.
That seems to be my superpower - really understanding what motivates people.
As founder of Eventbrite, I've interviewed almost every single person we've hired.
Being a female head of a successful tech company means that I'm in a pretty niche category.
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.
Your first company is like your first baby.You have this unconditional, irrational love.
I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.
To force a culture creates something that is inherently not sustainable. It does not evolve forward.
There is no finish line to leadership.
There's a lot of clarity in hindsight.
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.
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 have not always been a risk taker.
Ticketing is a people-intensive business to get it right on a global scale.
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.
If you have a cofounder, one of the benefits is you'll get from point A to point B two times faster.
We focus on Eventbrite and our family. That's how we spend our time, full stop.
I think a universal feeling that we all share is that live experiences create indelible memories.
I live, breathe, and die by what kind of company we're creating.
Every day is sort of a jigsaw puzzle. You have to make sure that you're putting the most important things first.
At Eventbrite, we care about the whole you, not just the employee you.
Our team finds motivation in knowing that we're transforming the ticketing industry, this notion that we're bringing democratization to an industry and disrupting it using technology.
My worst day is away from the office, when I'm traveling and not with the Britelings.
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.
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