The Importance of Talent in a Startup

In 2006 founding a company and placing it in San Francisco was actually contrarian. The conventional wisdom was that you place your company down here near Stanford. Eventbrite felt sort of this inherent pull towards San Francisco to be near what is crucial and what is the lifeline to our business, which are live experiences. Once we tapped into talent and were able to bring talent onto our team, we were able to extend ourselves way beyond where we had been in the first two years.