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Jack Groetzinger

CEO & Co-Founder, SeatGeek

Search every verified Jack Groetzinger interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jack Groetzinger, CEO and co-founder of SeatGeek, appeared on multiple podcasts in July 2026 to discuss the company's strategy, its decision to walk away from a planned IPO, and the state of the ticketing industry. On the TechCrunch podcast *Build Mode*, Groetzinger said that SeatGeek had been fully ready to list and had flown the entire company in for a bell-ringing party before pulling the IPO. He attributed the decision partly to the "scarlet letter" associated with SPACs, noting that many companies that went public via SPAC were not ready to do so. He also discussed raising money against a monopolist, stating that "once an investor actually believes you can win, the upside is insane because it means there's a lot of white space that no one has occupied." Groetzinger also commented on recent legal developments in the ticketing market, referencing a jury verdict he described as "quite consequential" and saying the industry is in a "very different moment" than three years ago, with structural problems now "out in the open." On CNBC's *Squawk Pod*, he addressed ticket pricing regulation, arguing that "the real answer is transparent pricing" rather than capping fees, citing examples from Ireland and Ontario. He also discussed SeatGeek's use of AI, saying the company expects that "if buying and selling a ticket on SeatGeek is not meaningfully different in a few years then we failed," and described AI as a way to create an interactive companion for fans at events. Additionally, Groetzinger spoke about using AI to move IT staff "from less interested work to more interesting work" as a customer of the AI-native IT startup Serval.

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“There was a jury verdict last month that hopefully will be quite consequential. uh it we're in a very different moment in our world in our industry than we were 3 years ago where there have been these very structural problems in our market and now they're out in the open in a way that they never have been before. It does not mean that things are fixed yet and fans still pay way too much and venues don't have enough c”

“There was a jury verdict last month that hopefully will be quite consequential. We're in a very different moment in our industry than we were 3 years ago where there have been these very structural problems in our market and now they're out in the open in a way that they never have been before. It does not mean that things are fixed yet and fans still pay way too much and venues don't have enough choice and there's s”

“The counterintuitive thing about raising money against a monopolist is that once an investor actually believes you can win the upside is insane because it means there's a lot of white space that no one has occupied other than said monopolist. There's no real second competitor. So it's not like right now if you're starting an AI note-taking app there are quite a few people doing that. It's not obvious what your advant”

“There was a jury verdict last month that hopefully will be quite consequential. We're in a very different moment in our industry than we were 3 years ago where there have been these very structural problems in our market and now they're out in the open in a way that they never have been before. It does not mean that things are fixed yet and fans still pay way too much and venues don't have enough choice and there's s”

“The counterintuitive thing about raising money against a monopolist is that once an investor actually believes you can win the upside is insane because it means there's a lot of white space that no one has occupied other than said monopolist. There's no real second competitor... For us, the strategy was rather straightforward. We knew we could create a much much better product. And we knew that if we could do that an”

“I think everyone agrees on the problem, which is fans want lower prices, they want more access to tickets. Where the evidence disagrees is that capping fees or capping the total resale price actually leads to better solutions. We've seen as a random example they tried this in Ireland and saw a meaningful increase in scams. They're now trying it in Ontario and are having a ton of problems with enforcement. So I think ”

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