Enrique Gil shared his latest business venture as partner of Ticket2Me, the country’s first fully digital ticketing and video platform for online and offline events.
In his latest venture, Gil brings to the table his experience as a performer as well as a music fan who travels to watch international artists perform. “I grew up in the entertainment industry basically my whole life. I have first-hand experience in music, dance, acting. That’s the perspective that I can bring to the company. I know what the viewers and what the fans want to see, what they need, what they like.
Ticket2Me started in 1999 as a means for Mariano, who was then in law school at the University of the Philippines, and his friends to watch theater shows. It was a simple website that helped fans buy tickets for theater performances, with Rent Manila, headlined by Bobby Garcia and Monique Wilson, as their first ticketed show.
Mariano recalls the first time he heard about Gil, aka Quen, from Rufino, a long-time friend. “Sometime during the summer, Ranvel called me. ‘Dar, I’m the manager of Enrique. I want to maybe talk to you, I want to brainstorm.’ So my original thinking was, gusto ba mag-theater ni Quen? I can make a really good show for him.”
Their conversation about Ticket2Me’s technology and the data side reminded Gil of Bezos’ story. “It just blew me away that [Bezos] was able to create this huge, huge empire just through data. Just for people to have this tool, it’s amazing. And to be able to share this with everyone, it’s really a good position to be in and I’m grateful,” Gil says.
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