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Ben Calvert

Ben Calvert

Co-Founder & CEO of Flicket, a New Zealand-founded event commerce and ticketing platform operating across NZ, Australia, the US and the UK.

Aug 19, 2026

5:49
So how, how have you grown it? What happened post-COVID for your company?
5:53
So post-COVID, well, again, during COVID, we were lucky.
5:56
A couple of our competitors went out of business, and we were able to not only pick up some of their best people, um, from a development and customer s- service perspective, but we also were able to pick up a lot of their clients.
6:10
And- Yeah, we, we essentially, rather than focusing on kind of going out and raising money, we just really focused on driving value to all of our customers, and we naturally just grew.
6:23
And, you know, started off the Chiefs, and then we picked up Waikato Rugby, and then NPC, and then all of a sudden we had the Blues, and then the Hurricanes, and then every major music festival in New Zealand.
6:35
Um, and yeah, we, we really knew we were onto something special.
6:40
Um, and I think for us, once we kind of got past that COVID stage, it was like, "Right, what can we do that's bigger than New Zealand, and are we onto something that's actually globally gonna make a difference?" And then we started getting some outbound to the places like the US and Australia, and started looking at those markets.
11:22
And, and what's next for your, you know, what's the next sort of growth step for the company?

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