You Don't Need a Great Idea to Start a Business. What You Need Is a Broken Industry.

Americans reserve a special portion of animus in their hearts for two industries: cable providers and ticketing agencies. Identifying just how broken the ticketing industry was Jack Groetzinger's bid idea. While he didn't have a perfect business model pre-fabricated in his mind, he knew that he could navigate the murky waters of an industry that had gotten complacent and stopped innovating. He hung on long enough to co-found SeatGeek and the rest, as they say, is history. Jack Groetzinger is a co-founder of SeatGeek, Inc., the online ticketing agency, and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. He leads the forecasting team and takes care of SeatGeek’s finances, fundraising, and other such 'trivialities.' Long active in entrepreneurship and particularly interested in aggregating and manipulating the web's 'data exhaust,' Groetzinger's former projects include Scribnia and Evolving Vox. He was previously a consultant at Bain & Company and is a graduate of Dartmouth College.