Eric Waller

'The only way to restore competition ... is to break up Ticketmaster and Live Nation.' SeatGeek CEO Jack Groetzinger says consumers suffer with the lack of competition in the ticket industry, adding 'venues fear losing Live Nation concerts if they don’t use Ticketmaster.'

Jack Groetzinger, the chief executive of the rival ticketer SeatGeek, says, “The only way to restore competition in this industry is to break up Ticketmaster and Live Nation.” nyti.ms/3wsbJNC

The Ravens and @SeatGeek have announced a new multi-year partnership deal! Through the partnership, we will revamp our ticketing experience with SeatGeek's mobile-first technology, beginning with the 2023 season. baltimoreravens.com/news/baltimore…

.@SeatGeek strikes deal to become official ticket marketplace partner of @NASCAR.

If it isn’t painful, it isn’t strategy.

The Florida Panthers became the first NHL club to break away from Ticketmaster, signing a multiyear deal with SeatGeek as its new official ticketing platform. @seanshapiro breaks down the deal and why it could be good news for hockey fans ⤵️ theathletic.com/3315802/?sourc…

.@SeatGeek will become the official ticketing platform of the @FlaPanthers and the team’s owned and operated venues.

We are proud to announce @SeatGeek as the official ticketing partner of the Citi Open! Learn more about the partnership at ⬇️ citiopentennis.com/news/seatgeek_…

SeatGeek has started to allow ticket buyers to exchange their ticket for a promotional credit if they can no longer attend an event—no questions asked on.wsj.com/2YiGPco

Fun fact We started discussing doing this deal 30 minutes ago ...now live to 135k viewers

🤳 → 🌭 → 😀 Excited to launch with @cavs forbes.com/sites/shlomosp…

.@SeatGeek plans to introduce NFTs with NFL/NBA teams this fall. The next phase of the company's blockchain ticketing approach will focus on the fractional ownership of seats and suites. The final phase is putting tickets on a blockchain. sportico.com/business/tech/…

@pcalcado Perfect beer name

Signed up for a Hulu trial just to relive some bad memories...

@spencernoon @JackGretz We sure do!

⁦@JackGretz⁩ ⁦@erwaller⁩ we need to talk guys :) sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2…

.@SeatGeek Chief Product Officer Eric Waller says the company is developing #NFT products, with the goal to have a digital collectible, and possibly a marketplace, available before the end of the year (@Bretjust1T). Free to read: sbjsbd.biz/3dmXzn2

MLB opening day maps 😍 >>>>

@pcalcado Can confirm, the first SeatGeek "microservice" ran on the same single EC2 instance 🙃

To me, what unleashed the microservices hype wasn't Docker or Kubernetes—we were doing microservices way before any of these existed. It all started when we collectively realized the power of these few lines of code...

@zackkitzmiller That reminds me of when we finally landed on the "execute the purchase one step at a time in a big function" approach in rails rather than the crazy graph of (sometimes magic) model method calls

John Carmack on inlining functions. number-none.com/blow/john_carm… Probably applies to SoA v. Monoliths in the cloud world. Thoughts?

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@jamesvanas That cover is so much better than the kindle cover image

This is a really good book for anyone working in product land. Buy it, read it!