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Ticket Tailor - Bootstrapping to £6m after selling business to TimeOut and buying it back
Ticket Tailor - Bootstrapping to £6m after selling business to TimeOut and buying it back
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Length:
64 minutes
Released:
Nov 21, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Jonny White is the Founder of Ticket Tailor. He was a software engineer who spotted a gap in the market for ticketing systems before building a white labelled service to sell to companies. TimeOut got interested in the tech and that was the start of his wild ride in entrepreneurship.
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