Pools (fka Withfriends) (YC W19) — Pools is a memberships platform for event organizers
Pools makes it easy for art, music, and other cultural communities to build memberships around their events. Inspired by the same methodology that museums have used to grow support, the platform leverages the checkout of tickets sales to upsell attendees into a membership with automated discounts, advance access, or members-only benefits.
Pools (fka Withfriends) is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2019 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Pools is a memberships platform for event organizers. The founder listed is Joe Ahearn (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, December 6, 2018).
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Pools makes it easy for art, music, and other cultural communities to build memberships around their events. Inspired by the same methodology that museums have used to grow support, the platform leverages the checkout of tickets sales to upsell attendees into a membership with automated discounts, advance access, or members-only benefits.
Joe Ahearn
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