Ryan Caradonna of EQ Tickets: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started Leading My Company

Headcount is a false proxy for success!! Don’t get drawn into the appearance of hiring more people = you’re more successful or growing faster. I would take 1 A+ hire over 10 B-’s. Take your time with hiring and find the right people, especially when the company has less than 10 people. More people = more communication required = less focus on the most essential aspects of operation e.g. iterating fast.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Ryan Caradonna. Ryan is Co-Founder, Co-CEO of EQ Tickets, a Socially connected Live Events platform. He was inspired to bring innovation to the ticketing world after spending 3 years setting up ticketing for tours such as Drake, Taylor Swift and Metallica, events such as Coachella and Stagecoach and Major League Teams and Venues such as the Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Mets and Staples Center. Having seen how the industry operates from behind the curtain, Ryan is inspired to transform the archaic, purely transactional live event and ticketing experiences of today into a delightful…