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As an early Eventbrite employee who saw the company grow from 10 to 200 people, this feels surreal.

Funny story is my company at the time looked at acquiring EventBrite about 10? years ago, and as part of the integration eval, I happened to run the ab command against their endpoint. Few minutes later VP ran to my office and told me to stop as EventBrite called saying we were DDOSing them.

Congrats to EventBrite on going public. Am glad you stayed independent, as my company would have ruined them, like many other acquisitions..

I was likely panicking not knowing anything at that time. Such a wild time of chaos and coffee overdoses.

It could have been you who saved them from ruin!

I imagine the conversation in the back "Do you believe it? Gedy's megacorp tried to ddos us!" "Accidentally! they were trying to run ab" "Well, even so, we don't want to sell to them anymore."

And now they are going public.

not a pro *nix guy here - what is the ab command and why does it make sense as part of an integration eval?

ab is ApacheBench[0], was measuring the response time of an API.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ApacheBench

One word: stress test tool.

thanks!

Buf!

Good to see you're still around. :fist-bump:

Now there's a name I haven't seen in a while.

Thanks for that mobile work all those years ago! :D

Are you happy about it?

I moved on from Eventbrite years ago, but the lessons I learned and the friends I made were incredible. I'm happy for everyone involved.

Hopefully you're also happy to be exercising some stock options!

We're still removing your code. Thanks buf. :)

Ha! Would've IPO'd 5 years ago without all that nasty code.

Is my EPP gone?

Renamed to CPP by the time I left. The "Breit"ling spirit remained though.

I saw it referred to as EPP in S-1. 90% of volume through it now!

suggestion - throw up a "isbufgoneyet" site that tracks % of original buf code no longer in master (according to git blame or whatever is the best way to do it). would be a fun afternoon project.

In the summer of 2012, I rewrote literally every line of the front end to prep for international launches in the sense that every line had me as the git blame author. I'm actually pretty curious how much is left.

I always wondered how the stock exercising process feels like for an early employee who has left company few years before the IPO. Is there any feeling of lost opportunities amidst all the happiness of the exit?

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