A Movie Ticketing Startup Hopes to Fill Empty Seats(nytimes.com)

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A Movie Ticketing Startup Hopes to Fill Empty Seats

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/04/business/media/movie-ticketing-start-up-atom-tickets-hopes-to-fill-theaters.html

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Solves problems that don't exist: Letting people split the fee on tickets so that one person doesn't have to buy everyone's ticket. Check

Acts as though providing the same service as competitors is novel: Almost the entirety of their schtick. Check

High Profile people who don't have any meaningful knowledge of the topic at hand: Tyler Perry and Spielberg totally understand theatre economics. So... check.

Already integrating with social media to monetize the hell out of everything: Oh baby check.

About the only thing novel or interesting are group discounts which a lot of theatres already do. Aside from that, this seems to be an example of everything that is wrong with startup/gig economies outside of exploiting workers (and I am sure they'll find a way. Maybe offer an option to have people stand in line for you).