The character arc of Julia Hartz

A life drawn by Character Arc from the public record

Born on 20 November 1979. Between then and now sit a Pepperdine degree in 2001, a development job at MTV from 2001, FX Networks from 2003, an engagement in April 2005, Eventbrite co-founded in 2006, a Forbes cover in 2014, the chief executive job in April 2016, the public listing in September 2018 and a fellowship the same year. The line below draws the story so far, in order.

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Who is Julia Hartz?

She took the job ten years in.

She graduated from Pepperdine University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in telecommunication, and began her career as a development executive at MTV, where she worked on the Jackass television series from 2001 to 2003. At FX Networks from 2003 to 2005 she helped oversee shows including The Shield, Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck and 30 Days. That is four years of learning how live things get made and how audiences turn up.

She got engaged to Kevin Hartz in April 2005, started Eventbrite nine months later, and married five months after that. She co-founded the company in 2006 with him and Renaud Visage, and it sells tickets for the kind of events her television career had been about. She appeared on the cover of Forbes in 2014 in a feature on Sequoia Capital's founding stars.

In April 2016 she was appointed chief executive and joined the board, after her husband and co-founder stepped down from the role, and he went back to working as an investor. In September 2018 she took the company public, one of the few women to lead a successful initial public offering of a technology company. The Aspen Institute named her to its 2018 class of Henry Crown Fellows.

The moments

Julia Hartz's timeline.

The 2000s

Jun 2001

Pepperdine, and then MTV

Milestone, and it changed everything. A degree and a television job in the same year.

Jun 2003

FX Networks

Milestone, and it changed her direction. Four shows people still name, before she was twenty six.

Apr 2005

An engagement, then a company

Milestone, and it changed her direction. Engaged, then a company, then married, in that order.

1 Dec 2005

Stay in television

Crossroads, decided.

The paths laid out: start the company, taken, or keep making television. She became Eventbrite's chief executive in April 2016 and took it public in September 2018.

Jun 2006

Eventbrite

Milestone, and it changed everything. A ticketing company, from somebody who had made the shows.

The 2010s

Jun 2014

The cover of Forbes

Milestone. On the cover, eight years after founding it.

Apr 2016

Chief executive

Milestone, and it changed everything. Ten years a co-founder, and then the chair.

Jun 2018

A Henry Crown Fellow

Milestone. A fellowship, in the year of the listing.

20 Sep 2018

She took it public

Milestone, and it changed everything. One of very few women to have led one.

The line reaches today still adding to itself, which is why it is drawn now rather than at the end. What it has set moving is the part that takes patience: she co-founded the company in 2006 and became its chief executive in 2016, and the ten years in between are the reason the listing went the way it did.

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What is Julia Hartz's character arc?

A telecommunication degree in 2001 and four years making television at MTV and FX Networks, then a ticketing company co-founded in 2006. She became its chief executive in April 2016 and took it public in September 2018.

What is Julia Hartz's Eventbrite?

A global ticketing and event technology platform she co-founded in 2006 with Kevin Hartz and Renaud Visage. She had spent the previous four years in television development, which is a business about getting audiences to turn up.

When did Julia Hartz become CEO?

In April 2016, when she was appointed chief executive and joined the board after her husband and co-founder stepped down from the role and returned to working as an investor.

Did Julia Hartz take Eventbrite public?

Yes, in September 2018, which made her among the few women to have led the successful initial public offering of a technology startup. The Aspen Institute named her to its class of Henry Crown Fellows in the same year.

What did Julia Hartz do before Eventbrite?

She was a development executive at MTV from 2001 to 2003, contributing to the Jackass series, and at FX Networks from 2003 to 2005, where she helped oversee The Shield, Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck and 30 Days.

Where did Julia Hartz study?

Pepperdine University, where she graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in telecommunication. She began working in television development at MTV in the same year, and co-founded Eventbrite in 2006.

Where does this timeline of Julia Hartz's life come from?

From the public record. Character Arc drew every moment on this line from the sources listed at the foot of the page, and the kind and weight of each moment are our editorial reading. Julia Hartz isn't a Member of Character Arc and has no connection with it, and no feeling is attributed to her.

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Sources

Julia Hartz, English Wikipedia biography, filed under living people.
Eventbrite initial public offering, September 2018.
Pepperdine University degree record, 2001, and the Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellows, 2018.