julia: one of the best things we did was find renaud, our cofounding cto, and i like to say the bravesterson on the planet. as we started to work together, we had this agreement that we would, first of all, divide and conquer, and that we would also always check in. i was the customer support, marketing, and finance department. kevin was the product department. and renaud was the engineering department. we were just three founders for two years. emily: why events and ticketing? why did you think that the problem that had to be solved or had so much potential? kevin: it was addressing this market that had been unaddressed and kind of left to itself. and what is exciting about eventbrite is we were meeting these people and creators who would come together and hosting these events they could not do before. so enabling this broad, many different categories of events, many different geographies, it was really a greenfield opportunity for us. emily: when you disagreed when kevin was ceo, how did that get resolved? julia: we always have the pact that the ceo is the final say. i could provided

cofounder and cto of oracle, he is currently still there, also managing partner at another firm.rience when it comes to technology and hr and trying to lead companies. larry ellison and kathleen wilson thomas joining tesla's board of directors, set by the sec as a requirement for tesla, as well as the fines they had to issue as a result of elon musk's tweets. much more on that story coming up. tesla up 2%. is it enough to keep elon musk from tweeting? bottom line. three companies worth watching. companies.s then buybacks. a great piece from bloomberg news. the amount of buybacks no longer supporting the s&p. some analysts saying this is good for stocks. >> companies have announced this quarter they would do $260 billion worth of buybacks. $600 billion in the first nine months of the year. buybacks are not propping up stocks anymore. investors are saying, why are you not investing that money into your businesses? apple has bought back $63 billion this year. if they were buying that now, they could pay $10 billion last. alix: bad timing. insider buying picked up over the last few w