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DOJ sues Google over ad practices, Ticketmaster takes the stand + LA26 founders | E1664

This Week in Startups

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Ticketmaster and the DoJ's History Is Not Great

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding this hearing because in November pre-sale tickets for Taylor Swift's the era's tour had huge amounts of technical issues and wait times. The CFO and president of Ticketmaster's parent company Live Nation Joe Bertrand said, quote, industrial scale ticket scalping and an unprecedented amount of bots were responsible for the large scale problems. People are not 100% having that because they control the platform.

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