Brian Rothenberg (Defy VC) Building Eventbrite’s Viral Loop That Generated $300M in Revenue

In this episode we hear from Brian Rothenberg, a Partner at the early stage venture capital firm, Defy. Brian was at Eventbrite for over 6 years from startup through IPO generating $300M revenue and nearly $3B market cap while serving as VP of Growth and running a $100M+ revenue line as GM. Blake and Brian discussed how Eventbrite’s growth model created a viral loop that led to massive success, how to go about building a distribution advantage and the biggest pitfalls of people who haven’t done this and how founders can go from siloed to a cross functional approach. All of that and more on this episode of BUILD.