Marketplace®

Daily business news and economic stories

Can Ticketmaster’s former CEO help Twitter make big bucks?

By hiring Nathan Hubbard, Twitter seeks to make revenue.

Twitter has hired the former CEO of Ticketmaster. What can the head of a ticketing behemoth offer a social media company that’s yet to go public? In a word — commerce. Ticketmaster’s Nathan Hubbard helped his old employer dominate online. So his new job could be to help Twitter turn a big user base into some dollar bills. Marketplace Tech reporter Queena Kim has the latest on the story.

Related Topics

Latest Episodes

View All Shows
  • Make Me Smart
    12 hours ago
    26:01
  • Marketplace
    13 hours ago
    25:42
  • Marketplace Morning Report
    21 hours ago
    6:54
  • Marketplace Tech
    a day ago
    8:03
  • Million Bazillion
    4 days ago
    28:24
  • How We Survive
    8 days ago
    25:04
  • This Is Uncomfortable
    8 days ago
    26:12
  • Financially Inclined
    3 months ago
    12:30
  • The Uncertain Hour
    4 months ago
    22:50
  • Corner Office from Marketplace
    5 years ago
    20:58