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Julia Hartz and the business of getting people into a room
A teenage coffee-shop lesson followed Julia Hartz from television into Eventbrite. Over two decades, the operator became CEO, took the company public and learned when to hand it on.
Andrew Dreskin and the business of getting you through the door
He helped put the box office on the internet, then returned to the ticket business with a promoter’s eye for the empty room. From TicketWeb to CashorTrade, Andrew Dreskin keeps finding another reason to care about the crowd.
Luke Groesbeck
Luke Groesbeck is the co-founder and CEO of Foundation, the buyer experience platform that drags homebuilding - one of the last big offline industries - online. After two decades building and scaling Silicon Valley startups including the now-public Opendoor and Eventbrite, he teamed up with two Opendoor colleagues to build what they call 'Shopify for homebuilders': white-labeled apps that carry a buyer from first tour through closing and into the warranty years. Backed by Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch, Foundation grew 5x in 2025 and now powers the homeowner apps of more than 40% of the top-200 U.S. builders.
Martina Tam
Martina Tam is the CEO of Paper, the Montreal-based edtech company that runs one of North America's largest virtual tutoring services for K-12 districts. A Stanford and Wharton alum, she stepped in at the start of 2025 after operator stints at Brightwheel, MasterClass, and Eventbrite, and is now steering Paper's pivot toward its high-impact tutoring program, GROW.
Dylan Serota
Dylan Serota is the CEO and Co-Founder of Terminal, a global tech talent marketplace that connects elite remote engineers with high-growth companies. After building a 100-person engineering team in Mendoza, Argentina during his time at Eventbrite, he co-founded Terminal in 2017 at the Atomic venture studio alongside Joe Lonsdale (Palantir co-founder) and Jack Abraham. Terminal has raised over $27M in funding including a $17M Series B led by 8VC, serves 100+ clients including Hims&Hers, iCapital, and Grindr, and is on track for nearly $50M in gross revenue. Serota took over as CEO in 2024 and has become a prominent voice on AI's impact on engineering talent and the future of distributed work.
Kevin Hartz
Kevin Hartz is a Silicon Valley serial founder and venture investor who co-founded Eventbrite (NYSE: EB) and Xoom (acquired by PayPal for $1.1B), made seed-stage bets on PayPal, Airbnb, Uber, Pinterest, Palantir, Square, Stripe, and Slack, and now runs A* Capital — a $300M early-stage fund that bets heavily on teenage founders. His career spans 30+ years of building and backing transformative tech companies from Berkeley to the world stage.
Casey Winters
Casey Winters is a co-founder and CEO of SuperMe, an AI-native professional network backed by Greylock and Reid Hoffman. He is one of the most respected growth and product operators in Silicon Valley, having scaled Grubhub from 40,000 customers in 3 cities to 3 million users in 1,000+ cities, then led Pinterest's growth from 40 million to 400 million users, and later served as CPO of Eventbrite through a pandemic that wiped out the live events industry. A longtime Reforge program partner and prolific writer at caseyaccidental.com, Winters is known for first-principles thinking, blunt contrarianism, and a deep aversion to cargo-cult growth frameworks.