Co-founders wanted for TicketMaster killer.

http://zaptix.blogspot.com/

by ChristianPerry • 19 years ago

23 22 19 years ago

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This guy Christian Perry is a good friend of mine, and I'm sure he'd be pretty cool to work with. Zaptix also has a lot of potential, I've bought tickets on there and it was very easy.

blader• 19 years ago

I'd also like to vouch for Christian. He has friends every where, and I'm happy to be counted among them. Christian is best known for running the largest web 2.0 schmooze fests in San Francisco, and has been very successful in getting clients for Zaptix over the past two years as a single founder.

palish• 19 years ago

Good luck. I'd love if it worked out. Ticketmaster probably has contracts with individual locations that bands play at, though.

plusbryan4• 19 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticketmaster has some info on the industry, contracts, etc

For all intents and purposes, ZapTix is working on growing outside of ticketmaster's monopoly, targeting the untapped but very willing niche of school and university theaters.

ChristianPerry2• 19 years ago

Indeed -- fewer than 10% of colleges work with TicketMaster, or for that matter, any ticketing service at all.

plusbryan4• 19 years ago

This is Bryan, of the YC-backed startup Pairwise. I highly recommend this opportunity.

Christian is my roommate, so I have some insider info about ZapTix.com that I figured I should share here.

Christian is non-technical, which is why he's looking for a technical co-founder. But the sales and marketing skills that he brings to the table are immense and vital for this business.

The current site was built by an offshore team, which for better or worse, is not working out very well for him nor handling his upward growth. Based on suggestions from myself and his technical friends, he's now looking for a technical co-founder to join his team.

If I know one thing about Christian, it's that he's a hardworking entrepreneur who also maintains an admirable work-life balance. He's also a people guy. Within a month of moving to SF, he started the most popular tech event in the city - SFbeta, along with well-paying sponsors! He's well liked by all that know him and would be a great person with which to work.

I also know first-hand that the company is currently profitable, with several big-name clients, and imho has a ton of room to grow. If I weren't already tied to my current project, I would work with him.

brianmckenzie2• 19 years ago

I concur with all this stuff Bryan is saying.

justin• 19 years ago

Christian is a great networker and plugged into the social web scene in SF.

--Justin.tv

tx• 19 years ago

Good luck. I freaking hate TicketMaster. Aren't they supposed to be a legalized gang of mobsters?

yubrew• 19 years ago

it cost me $4 for a $30 ticket. That's a service fee of ~13% for an automated process!

especkman• 19 years ago

Nice business they've built for themselves, isn't it?

On the other hand, you aren't counting all the raw meat they have to feed the goons they use to keep acts and venues from straying.

Psyonic• 19 years ago

I've seen $7 on a $25 ticket, and that was a week in advance. Closer to 30% service fee. Needless to say, I went and bought it at the venue.

weel2• 19 years ago

I once talked to a TicketMaster recruiter at a job fair. When he realized I was getting a little bored, he told me that besides the positions they were advertising, they also needed somebody who could help them speed up their main database system, which, if I recall correctly, was written in MACRO-32 and ran on a VAX until they moved it to Linux boxen running a proprietary emulator. If you search around the web for "ticketmaster vax" you can maybe find out how far they have gotten with their project to scrap the VAXen.

plusbryan4• 19 years ago

dude, that's like punchcards, right? :)

mynameishere• 19 years ago

Hey, I'd consider it, but I'd just wind up replacing your PHP with the full J2EE stack. :P

Co-founders wanted for TicketMaster killer.

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