Eventbrite’s CEO quit a cushy career in Hollywood to launch the $225 million company with her own money: ‘If it’s a disaster, we’ll just be broke’

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Eventbrite’s CEO quit a cushy career in Hollywood to launch the $225 million company with her own money: ‘If it’s a disaster, we’ll just be broke’

fortune.com/2025/07/30/millionaire-eventbrite-ceo-julia-hartz-ceo-cofounder-personal-finance-quit-tv-career-hollywood-broke

Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz ditched her cushy TV career working on hit shows like Friends, Jackass, and The Shield to bootstrap the ticketing platform with her two cofounders, scaling it from a windowless phone closet. She exclusively tells Fortune they shelled out less than $250,000 to…

This story appeared on fortune.com, 2025-07-30 16:27:53.