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StubHub was founded in March 2000 as a class project [7] by Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr, both former Stanford Business School students and investment bankers. [8] One of its first major sports deals was with the Seattle Mariners in 2001. [9]
With icons like Taylor Swift on tour this summer, concert ticket purchases are booming. Unfortunately, so are ticket scams. In 2022, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) received over 140 reports on ...
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The complaint, filed in Washington, D.C.’s Superior Court, states that StubHub has been using a predatory “drip pricing” model to illegally boost profits. Since employing this method ...
Since StubHub adopted this pricing model in 2015, the company has sold almost 5 million tickets to Washington, DC, consumers alone, generating $118 million in “hidden” fee revenue, according ...
Did you sell any concert or event tickets on an online resale site such as StubHub or Ticketmaster in 2023? Many Americans did -- StubHub reports that 83% of ticket sellers for U.S. concerts on ...
Viagogo was founded in 2006 in London as a secondary ticketing marketplace by Eric Baker, the co-founder of US-based StubHub. [5] [12] With sections established to provide an online marketplace for sports, music, theatre and comedy tickets, the company's launch included official partnerships with Chelsea FC and Manchester United FC, [5] with the sports clubs sharing in the commission revenue ...
Baker worked for McKinsey & Company for two years, and then Bain Capital, a private equity firm in Boston. [4] [3]Baker co-founded StubHub in 2000, with fellow Stanford classmate Jeff Fluhr, initially as part of a Stanford competition from which they withdrew after being chosen as finalists due to concerns that someone might take their idea.