Lanyrd acquired by Eventbrite

http://lanyrd.com/blog/2013/eventbrite/

by chrisdinn • 13 years ago

285 46 13 years ago

jedc2• 13 years ago

Congratulations, guys! This seems like a really natural fit. The slidedeck was a thoughtful touch to explain it, too. :)

djt• 13 years ago

I wonder how much they paid?

johns• 13 years ago

Congrats Simon and team! Great outcome for one of my favorite services. Can't wait to have you in SF.

jedc2• 13 years ago

Is Lanyrd leaving London? I didn't see that mentioned anywhere...

paulsilver• 13 years ago

In the Eventbrite notice - http://blog.eventbrite.com/eventbrite-acquires-eventioz-and-... - it says the Lanyrd team will be moving over to San Francisco to join the main Eventbrite engineers.

It'll be a shame to lose them to the States again.

ig1• 13 years ago

Congrats

iancarroll• 13 years ago

Am I the only one that read that as Lavabit?

niccolop• 13 years ago

Congrats Simon and Natalie!

cbeach• 13 years ago

Congratulations Simon and Nat - sorry to lose you from London but SF will be a fantastic move. All the best.

andybak• 13 years ago

You already pinched them from Brighton. Now you know how it feels ;-)

loceng• 13 years ago

Makes perfect sense. Congrats.

timruffles• 13 years ago

Congrats! What a shame that you're off to the states :(

emhart• 13 years ago

Congratulations as all have said, and also some excitement, as this seems like a well-matched pair of services. I am very optimistic for the outcome of this acquisition/collaboration. Best of luck to all involved!

sylvinus• 13 years ago

Warm congrats!

r4vik• 13 years ago

Great news for Lanyrd and Eventbrite, hope they can use the Lanyrd team to fix their horrendous platform! So much potential.

mavroprovato• 13 years ago

Side project on their honeymoon??? That must be the geekiest thing that I have ever heard.

joshdance• 13 years ago

Geeks shall inherit the earth.

simonw• 13 years ago

To clarify: we did have a solid three months of honeymoon before we started the company!

Here's a longer version of the story: http://lanyrd.com/blog/2012/lanyrd-the-early-days/

fourstar• 13 years ago

I remember reaching out to them a couple years ago asking about their stack, and I got a really nice/informative response back (actually they linked me to a page on their site that listed all the info). These two deserve it!

reachedtoofar• 13 years ago

A lot of Americans say 'reaching out' when they mean 'talk', it sounds ludicrous to me- as if it were the bloody Creation of Adam ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michelangelo_-_Creation_of... ). So naff.

premasagar• 13 years ago

Simon and Natalie, and all the team, congratulations on your continued rise of success. Yours has always felt like one of the most human and utterly useful services out there; long may it be so. Enjoy the new phase.

nhangen• 13 years ago

Congrats to the team, both on the acquisition and being acquired by a great company.

dmitri1981• 13 years ago

Congratulations! You will be much missed in London.

31reasons3• 13 years ago

Why founders sell it so early ? If you want to sell it so early why start in the first place ?

noelwelsh• 13 years ago

There are at least 31 reasons why a founder might sell. Money is a popular one.

31reasons3• 13 years ago

Good point!

georgespencer• 13 years ago

If you want to sell it so early why start in the first place?

Uh, what? Are you genuinely suggesting that if your intention is to sell a business quickly, you shouldn't start one to begin with? I.e. "if you want to sell a business, don't start a business."

Utter nonsense.

31reasons3• 13 years ago

you missed "so early". They could have sold it for twice the price if they grew little bit more and become bigger competitor. Like all decisions, no selling a company is also an investment decision. Do you want to invest in founders who sell within 3 years or someone who grow the company much bigger in 10 or 15 years ? Mark Zuckerberg was offered $1 billion dollar by yahoo when no one even heard of facebook and he declined the offer. If you want to call it "Utter nonsense" its your choice.

sjtgraham• 13 years ago

They raised $1.4MM almost exactly two years ago and have a team of six in London. Maybe their options were limited. They deserve our congratulations regardless.

toyg2• 13 years ago

Early? It's three years almost to the day, for a service which, albeit very nice, was basically without a real monetization strategy (at least from what I saw -- I only attend a couple of conferences per year, so I'm not a heavy user or anything). In Europe, such services tend to die much earlier than what Lanyrd managed.

Besides, it makes a lot of sense as an add-on or content-sink for services with a more solid outlook... like Eventbrite. So it's a good move for everyone involved: SimonW and friends get their payout and Eventbrite gets a nice set of features ready to go. Win-win :)

lamby• 13 years ago

Congrats simonw :)

gregdek• 13 years ago

congrats simon et al.

amirmc• 13 years ago

This is exactly the kind of acquisition that can help drive even more adoption of a service since it's obvious to users how the two companies complement each other.

This is also one of the very few acquisitions where I've read "[acquirer's] vision sits well with ours..." and not had to scratch my head and figure out why.

Congrats on a great pairing and sorry that we're losing Simon and Nat to the US.

onassar• 13 years ago

I'm working on a business in a similar space, and what got me excited by this news was the natural overlap. It doesn't come off as a talent grab. Rather, there are natural parallels between the two services, and it seems like they're going to explore how they can (yup, I'm gonna say it), synergize, their two respective domains.

Podium (http://hellopodium.com) is the service we're working on. Excited about this space :)

manpreetrules• 13 years ago

congrats

Swannie• 13 years ago

A successful YCombinator exit. Congrats guys. Will miss you from London. When's the party? ;-)

vadivlkumar• 13 years ago

A great gift for your next anniversary

taitems• 13 years ago

Maybe we'll finally get an API!

sixQuarks• 13 years ago

My guess is this is a ~$10 million acquisition. Not too shabby for a 3 year old startup.

Lanyrd acquired by Eventbrite

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