{"id":71,"date":"2013-08-28T18:15:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T09:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peatix.com\/sg\/!CDATAseven-fun-facts-about-peatix-that-will-make-you-go-oooo-interesting"},"modified":"2018-06-28T10:20:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T10:20:32","slug":"seven-fun-facts-about-peatix-that-will-make-you-go-oooo-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/seven-fun-facts-about-peatix-that-will-make-you-go-oooo-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Fun Facts About Peatix That Will Make You Go \u201cOooo interesting\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Peatix once had an aerial cat photography workshop hosted on our online and mobile ticketing platform. Talk about quirky!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.peatix.com\/images\/blog\/FF_Ariel_Cat.png\" alt=\"FF Ariel Cat\" width=\"510\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> The co-founders, Taku Harada and Emi Takemura, met whilst working at Amazon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.peatix.com\/images\/blog\/FF_Amazon.png\" alt=\"FF Amazon\" width=\"499\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Two months ago, Peatix decided to make the big move to the awesome cities of Singapore and New York after clinching a US$3 million <a href=\"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/sg\/peatix-concludes-series-a-funding-round-and-launches-in-us-and-singapore\">Series A funding round<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.peatix.com\/images\/blog\/FF_Move.png\" alt=\"FF Move\" width=\"599\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Peatix has hosted more than 10,000 events in Japan since its launch! Impressive much?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.peatix.com\/images\/blog\/FF_10000.png\" alt=\"FF 10000\" width=\"630\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> Peatix was born in May 2011. So that makes Pea-chan (our mascot) 2 years and 3 months old.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.peatix.com\/images\/blog\/FF_2_years.png\" alt=\"FF 2 years\" width=\"630\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> Peatix used to be PeaTiX. Notice the capital P, T, and X? It stands for the event acronym: Place, Ticket, and Objective. Interesting, right? Bet you never knew that before.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.peatix.com\/images\/blog\/FF_PTX.png\" alt=\"FF PTX\" width=\"371\" height=\"161\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong> Saving the trees, one ticket at a time. 60% of event attendees on Peatix buy tickets through mobile devices. Yay to the QR code!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.peatix.com\/images\/blog\/FF_QR_Code.PNG\" alt=\"FF QR Code\" width=\"630\" height=\"1118\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Peatix once had an aerial cat photography workshop hosted on our online and mobile ticketing platform. Talk about quirky! 2. The co-founders, Taku Harada and Emi Takemura, met whilst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventblog.peatix.com\/experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}