Brett Durrett

Venture Partner / Social Starts

Brett G. Durrett is an experienced entrepreneur, with a track record of founding and operating businesses ranging from a couple of people in a spare room with no revenue, to $50M+ annually and hundreds of employees worldwide. He was the former CEO of the online community IMVU (also known as Eric Ries’ original Lean Startup), scaling the company from hundreds of customers (well, friends and family that felt obligated to use the service) to 10 million and beyond. Brett is a mentor to startups, advisor to NOLA’s Idea Village accelerator, consults in interim CPO/CTO executive roles, and is a venture partner for a seed fund.

Connect with Brett on Twitter at @bdurrett