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Rajesh Balpande:

Co-Founder at Bookmyshow.com

ookMyShow is an Indian Bangalore. With more than 20 Founder Rajesh Balpande takes
online ticketing service million page views per month, over Finance.
Bfor cinemas, theaters, and BookMyShow has ticketed for Our Journey
sports. Within a decade of its more than 300 live large format
inception, BookMyShow poses a events and sport events such as 2000 – 01: Gaining ground with
Cinema
40% CAGR in revenues and over ICL, city Marathons, etc.
90% market share in the online BookMyShow.com was the official With the cinema industry on a high
entertainment ticketing space. ticketing partner for Mumbai and multiplexes and large cinema
With offices in India, New Zealand, Indians, Kings XI Punjab, and chains starting to entertain Indian
audiences around the country;
and Malaysia, BookMyShow aims official online ticketing partner
to present their clients with endless for Delhi Daredevils in season Bigtree takes over the rights to
retail and service New Zealand
options to purchase tickets for 2010. BookMyShow introduced a based ticketing software, Vista in
the latest movies, music concerts, number of innovative features to India.
plays, stand up comic acts, and make cricket viewing a pleasurable
major sporting events to name a and more comfortable experience 2002 – 2007: Fighting the rough
few. Tickets can be booked through for their customers this season with seas
various platforms like internet, on ground tie ups with various In the midst of the dot com
mobile application, WAP and the in retail chains like Reliance Fresh, bust that happened in 2002, the
- house call center. Reebok and Café Coffee Day for company offered technology
With ticketing for over 3000 sale of tickets. solutions from the Customer
screens across 250 cities, We Are Movie Buffs: Relationship Management point of
BookMyShow has partnerships 20 years ago in South Africa a seed view to fight the storm. 2007: The
with all major Indian production of an idea was planted, a dream Big Bucks
houses and studios with real time was shared. Inception happened. Network 18 invested in March
ticketing for major cinema chains 20 years on, we look back at what 2007. In August, the same year an
like Inox, Big Cinemas, Cinemax, we’ve built. Leave it up to us, and internal contest was held to coin
Fun Cinemas etc. 85% of all we’d love to do it all over again. a name for the new company. A
cinema tickets sold online are The Three Musketeers developer intern came up with the
booked on bookyshow, resulting name BookMyShow.com and the
in sales peaking up to 7 million What happens when 3 long-time rest as they say is history.
tickets per month. friends go holidaying together 2007 AUG: Launch of
BookMyShow has ticketed for in South Africa? The seed of a BookMyShow
BigTree is planted. A company is
over 1,500 plays online and is the planned, from roots to fruits. Soon Bigtree Entertainment Pvt. Ltd
exclusive and permanent ticketing after the Eureka moment, C.E.O. launches India’s first ticketing
partners for theatre venues aggregator - BookMyShow - in
like Prithvi Theater, Mumbai, Ashish Hemrajani quits his job at August 2007, now one of the
NCPA Mumbai, Indian Habitat JWT, Co-Founder Parikshit Dar biggest ticketing portals in the
takes over Technology, and Co-
Centre Delhi and Rangshankara country.

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