EPISODE · Sep 13, 2023 · 27 MIN
Index Unplugged: working with entrepreneurs across decades and continents
from Visionaries Unplugged · host Visionaries Club - Unplugged
Danny Rimer joined Index in 2002 and established the firm's London office. He later opened the San Francisco office with Mike Volpi. He has worked with transformative companies like Discord, Dropbox, Etsy, FARFETCH, and Figma. Prior to Index, Danny was a General Partner at The Barksdale Group, where he invested in over a dozen companies. In this episode, Danny will share some very personal insights about being an Entrepreneur in VC, his most important choices in life, what lessons he learned the hard way, and how he backed Figma which has been acquired by Adobe, making one of the biggest acquisitions of a private tech business in history.
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Danny Rimer joined Index in 2002 and established the firm's London office. He later opened the San Francisco office with Mike Volpi. He has worked with transformative companies like Discord, Dropbox, Etsy, FARFETCH, and Figma. Prior to Index, Danny was a General Partner at The Barksdale Group, where he invested in over a dozen companies. In this episode, Danny will share some very personal insights about being an Entrepreneur in VC, his most important choices in life, what lessons he learned the hard way, and how he backed Figma which has been acquired by Adobe, making one of the biggest acquisitions of a private tech business in history.
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