Eventbrite Beefs Up Engineering To Take On Ticketmaster — techcrunch.com

Eventbrite is setting its sites on a bigger vision that will take on the likes of Ticketmaster and StubHub as the go-to events space. It’s been busy hiring a bunch of new and notable engineering talent of late to create what they hope will become a true platform for event discovery. Eventbrite just crossed the 200-million-tickets-sold mark and reaped over $1 billion in sales in 2013 alone. The company also rolled out advanced reserved seating charts last March in order to add seated concerts and sporting events.

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