Acquired by Bending Spoons for ~$500M ($4.50/share), completed March 2026; delisted from NYSE.
The rise & fall
9 moments · 2006–2026
The key moments, with employee sentiment along the way.
2006
🌱
2006
Founded in San Francisco
Julia and Kevin Hartz build self-service ticketing for everyone else's events — from concerts to conferences.
Wikipedia
2017
🦄
2017
Joins the unicorn club
Late-stage funding pushes the ticketing platform past $1B.
TechCrunch
2018
📈
2018
The peak: a ~$2B private unicorn goes public$2B
Peaks around $2B privately, then lists on the NYSE in September at $1.8B — and the stock pops on debut.
TechCrunch
Apr 2020
Apr 2020
The pandemic stops live events
Ticketing volume evaporates overnight; Eventbrite cuts roughly 45% of its staff.
TechCrunch
2022
💔
2022
Slips out of the club
After a brief reopening-rally bounce in 2021, growth stalls, the events market stays choppy, and the market cap sinks below $1B.
Macrotrends
2022–25
💬
From the inside · Glassdoor reviews, 2022–25
Through the decline, Glassdoor reviewers recounted repeated layoff rounds paired with the offshoring of roles to cheaper markets, and leadership that employees said kept shifting strategy, resetting priorities and roadmaps every few months.
2024
2024
A pricing misstep drives organizers away
Fee and product changes push event creators toward rivals.
TechCrunch
Dec 2025
Dec 2025
Bending Spoons swoops in
The Italian app roll-up agrees to buy Eventbrite for about $500M — $4.50 a share.
TechCrunch
Mar 2026
🤝
Mar 2026
Acquired by Bending Spoons for ~$500M$500M
The take-private closes and the stock leaves the NYSE — roughly a quarter of the peak valuation.
Businesswire
💬 entries paraphrase anonymous, unverified reviews posted publicly on Glassdoor ↗; dated facts carry their source.
How it happened
Eventbrite is a self-service ticketing platform used by organizers to sell tickets for everything from concerts to conferences. A private unicorn valued around $2B, it went public in 2018 at a $1.8B valuation and briefly traded higher in the 2021 reopening rally.
But growth stalled, the events market stayed choppy and a 2024 pricing-and-product misstep drove organizers away. In December 2025 Italy's Bending Spoons bought it for about $500M — $4.50 a share — completing the take-private in March 2026, far below its peak.
Source: Businesswire / TechCrunch / SF Standard (private peak ~$2B and $1.8B IPO 2018 at $37/share; Bending Spoons acquisition ~$500M at $4.50/share, announced Dec 2025, completed March 10 2026, delisted)
Founders
Julia Hartz
Co-founder & CEO
Now Board Of Directors at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts · LinkedIn ↗
