It was refreshing to hear takeaways and best practices of building product from an investor/founder perspective last friday. Kevin Hartz shared a number of great lessons from his extensive career building and launching hit startups.
We talked about how a general manager at Hilton helped Kevin build his very first business—a hotel chain internet provider business in the 1990s. Kevin built, launched and sold the business for $10M in less than 10 months. We talked about his long friendship with Peter Thiel as well as investing into and learning from PayPal mafia. We spent quiet a bit of time discussing Eventbrite and the unique position it is in today.
Kevin Hartz's Soapbox Summary & Podcast