Hive (YC S14) Hiring as They Transition from Ticket Marketing SaaS to AI Agent Platform
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patman_h
7mo ago· 1 min readenNews
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Summary
Hive (YC S14) is a 12-year-old company that provides CRM, email, SMS, and advertising tools for concert venues to sell tickets. With 1,500+ venues using their platform and the second-largest database of past ticket buyers after Live Nation, they have extensive data on effective marketing strategies from millions of previous campaigns. The company is profitable, has a remote team of 70+ across Canada and the US, and is transitioning from a SaaS tool to an AI agent that autonomously strategizes and recommends ticket-selling approaches.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledWe've been building Hive for 12 years, we're a remote team of 70+ in CAN/USA, and we're breakeven / profitable (when we want to be!)
We have the largest database of past ticket buyers (next to live nation) and we know what marketing works to sell tickets and what doesn't (from ~millions of prev deployed email/sms/ad campaigns)
We're building the future of Hive: moving from a SaaS tool that marketers use themselves to (effectively!) sell tickets, to an agent that strategizes, recommends
Hi HN fam - we’re www.hive.co.
