Spain

Francisco Ruiz is the founder and CEO of entradium.com, an online ticketing platform that processes over 2.7 million tickets in 2023 and over 8.7 million tickets in the past decade, from more than 30,000 events annually in Spain. With just 11 employees, the company's value proposition is focused on enabling any artist to sell tickets online, thus helping to grow their business. Based primarily in Spain, they expanded business to Ireland, and worked in Latin America.

During his university years, Fran founded three other companies in social media, online marketing, and e-commerce, which were unsuccessful. At the same time, he volunteered with various foundations for entrepreneurs like Junior Achievement.

Since 2021, Fran also runs his own entrepreneurship newsletter, where he regularly sends out free tips and tricks to help anyone, regardless of their age and education, to start their own business.