Former TM engineering manager here...

> TM owns this market and frankly, the issue has nothing to do with tech, and everything to do with the way professional sports and concert marketing works from a biz perspective.

Props to you for realizing the complexity of the business side. Most folks don't realize how complicated the world of ticketing is.

I do think you underestimate the value of technology. Ticketmaster effectively figured how to solve some really hard problems, similar to how we solve inside Google today.

The difference is TM did it with VAX assembler and for very focused use cases.