What may surprise you is what exponential growth looks like. Similarly you will see startups that seem to have it all figured out, and when they become the talk of the town, it doesn’t surprise you. That resets your sense of what to be scared by. However over the next few years the foundation they’d built their growth on moved underneath them and they disappeared. I remember being terrified by a competitor to Songkick that launched while we were only just getting started. It’s kind of like rewatching the first series of 24 after seeing the final episode of season 8. One thing that comes from building the same company for 7 years is you get to watch waves of start-ups succeed and fail around you and your intuition about start-ups gets rewired. Given that the average artist makes 70% of their income from concerts we hope we will make a big difference to artists as well as fans. We’re the second most used concert service in the world after TicketMaster with about 10m unique fans/mo.

If you’ve ever experienced the frustration of finding out that your favourite band was playing the day after the show then we’re for you. Songkick is the easiest way to find out when your favourite artists come to town and get tickets. We started Songkick back in 2007 and were part of the summer ‘07 YC batch. Hi I’m Ian Hogarth and I’m one of the co-founders of Songkick along with Michelle You and Pete Smith.

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