James McGlinn: Eventfinda co-founder on the company being acquired by Ticketek Entertainment Group

Events discovery platform Eventfinda could soon reach global markets, with help from Ticketek Entertainment Group.

The live entertainment business has acquired Eventfinda, subject to conditions.

Eventfinda will continue to operate under the same brand, and says clients can be assured that it’s business as usual.

Co-founder James McGlinn says the team's 'overjoyed' with the new deal.

"It couldn't come fast enough, we're really excited about it." 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now local Kiwi company. Event Finder is the latest company
to be snapped up by the offshore guys, this time
by the Aussie giant tick a Tech. Event Finder lets
the event organize as promotion cell tickets all in one place.
Very cool to use. James McGlynn as the co founder
of event Finder. Hey James, Hi, congrats, how are you
feeling really good?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Really excited The team here at event Finder overjoyed. It's
vindication really that we've built a world class platform from
down here in New Zealand and TG have been very
interested in helping us take that to the world.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
So how big is this? Is this a deal so
big you'll never have to work in the whole of
the rest of your life.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
We're not disclosing any of the deal terms, but we can't.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Even tell us if you never have to if you
can buy any beach house you want, buy a chopper
and never have to work again.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm not even thinking about beach outhers than choppers. We're
thinking about how we go into the rest of the world,
and starting with Australia, the UK, the US, Singapore is
a huge amount of potential and something that we've been
working on here and I've been working on personally for
twenty years, so you know it couldn't come fast enough.
We're really excited about it.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
So are you stul involved with it?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm absolutely involved. So I remain Managing director of event Finder.
The leadership team that I have here in New Zealand
will remain. All of our team remain. It's business as
usual for a vent Finder and for our clients. Nothing
changes about our approach, our product, our service, pricing terms,
any of those things. What we get to do now
is go into the world stage and show them what

(01:31):
we've got.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
How big do you reckon you can get?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I think there's global opportunity for this, I honestly do.
I don't believe there's anything anywhere in the world that
does what we do with this sort of level of
capability that the event Finder team have built and TG
you have looked around globally and have come down and
seen us and said, okay, we want to help you
take this and really make it into something huge.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
We've got quite a few sales at the moment New
Zealand businesses to offshore interests. Why do you think that is?
Is there a genuine interest in us for some reason, I.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Think this is the path. I think we're a small
country down here in New Zealand, five million people and
if you can get to the point where you're ready
to take that product offshore into much bigger markets, this
is really the way that you do it.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, brilliant stuff. Hey, thank you very much, James. James McGlenn.
Event find a co founder.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
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