"Success comes from staying grounded and putting fans first"
How’s the live business doing in 2025 and beyond? Our CEO and founder, Folkert Koopmans, talked to Pollstar about trying times, well-earned successes, …
Billy Talent, together with their fans, have raised 36,365 euros for F.U.MS Germany. The total is the result of two exclusive club shows at the Columbia Theatre in Berlin and the Kantine in Cologne, where fans were able to get particularly close to the Canadian rock icons, who normally fill much larger venues.
How’s the live business doing in 2025 and beyond? Our CEO and founder, Folkert Koopmans, talked to Pollstar about trying times, well-earned successes, and why fair pricing is more important than ever. Read the full interview below – and explore more background stories about the live industry over at Pollstar.
With 2019 slowly coming to a close we're often asked how our year has been. The short answer: "Very good." The long answer: "Very good, thank you. Do you want to know why?" For those who do we've compiled some interesting questions our CEO Folkert answered for Audience Mag.
A little more than a year ago, we started a process in the company that we called FKP Scorpio Identity. So far, it has resulted in a defined company philosophy, an employee charter, internal knowledge sharing sessions, yearly employee questionnaires and several other initiatives. Most importantly, we are starting to see spikes in overall satisfaction levels and we spur a will among colleagues to break down barriers between departments in order to work more and better together. We are not there yet, but the process is in motion and on-going! But let's take a step back to look at how this process even came into question.
