Visionaries Unplugged

Tune in to this enriching conversation between Doug Leone, Global Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital, and Visionaries Club Founding Partner Robert Lacher. Doug shares his insights on entrepreneurship and venture capital and highlights the universal traits of successful founders, stressing hunger, resilience, and adaptability. Tune in now to discover more.

Join us for a captivating conversation featuring Formula One Champion and Investor Nico Rosberg in dialogue with Visionaries Founding Partner Robert Lacher. Together, they delve into the parallels between athletes and founders. Uncover valuable insights such as the paramount importance of focus, the critical role of balance, and the indispensable nature of courage. Tune in now to discover more.

Tune in to this episode and listen to Soccer World Champion and Investor Mario Götze as well as Founder of OMR Philipp Westermeyer to explore Mario's path succeeding as an athelete and starting a second career as a startup investor. How did Mario get into investing and what motivated him to become an investor? Tune in and find out.

In this episode, Shravin Bharti Mittal, the Founder of Unbound and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, and Visionaries Club Founding Partner Sebastian Pollok will take you on an exploration of Bharti Global's origins, one of the world’s largest telecom companies with 450+ million customers, and Shravin's mission with Unbound - a globally oriented, long-term technology investment firm dedicated to nurturing and championing the next generation of "100-year companies" while genuinely creating substantial value - REAL value.

In this episode, Harry Stebbings, Founder of 20VC will chat with Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder of LinkedIn and Partner at Greylock, about his learnings from the early days of Paypal, starting LinkedIn and being one of the very early backers and believers in our European Tech ecosystem with his support of programs such as Entrepreneur First! But what can we do better? How can governments support to accelerate our ecosystem? Tune in to find out.

Defence AI startup Helsing, recently broke the record for European AI, raising a $223M Series B. In this episode, we welcome Torsten Reil, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Helsing together with Caroline Daniel, former Editor of the Financial Times and Partner at Brunswick Group for an in-depth discussion on leading the charge in AI, separating hype from reality and its impact on society.

Having experienced frustration with the skincare industry first hand, Charmaine Chow started GetHarley while still working at Goldman Sachs - she would deliver boxes of products to her customers on her way to work! From the first time we met her, we were and continue to be floored by the clarity and sharpness of her thinking, her maniacal focus on her customers, and her inspiring ambition. She doesn't take no for an answer and as a result, is building a truly revolutionary business. In this episode, Charmaine will talk about her inspiring entrepreneurial journey together with Georgia Stevenson, Partner at Index Ventures.

Ilkka Paananen is the Co-Founder & CEO of Supercell, the Finnish games company behind hit games such as Clash of Clans, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Founded in 2010, Supercell’s games have been featuring in the global top 10 for years and are played by more than 250 million people every month. Prepare to be inspired as Ilkka will go through a few of his very personal moments and experiences of his entrepreneurial journey building and shaping Supercell into such an enduring company as well as looking a bit "behind the scenes of Europe's angel mafia" and a new generation of founders syndicating to develop the European ecosystem to the next level togehter with the Founder of 20VC, Harry Stebbings.

The journey of hyperscaling is synonymous with the remarkable success story of Pigment. Eléonore Crespo, the Co-Founder of Pigment, has achieved a staggering 600% revenue growth in 2022 compared to 2021, and the company has raised an impressive $250M in just three years. Notably, some of the industry's giants such as Klarna, Miro, Airtable, Figma, Webhelp, Poshmark, Eventbrite, and Mozilla have harnessed the power of Pigment's platform. Intrigued by the art of hyperscaling while fostering family values simultaneously? Tune in to this insightful session moderated by Miriam Partington during Unplugged 2023 to gain valuable insights into this unique journey.

When two pioneers in SaaS meet, we will certainly listen to one of the most impressive fireside chats. Andrey Khusid, Co-Founder and CEO of Miro, and Daniel Dines, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of UiPath, share a few of their very personal moments and experiences of their entrepreneurial journeys building and shaping two decacorns - UiPath and Miro - into such enduring companies as well as the role of AI in unleashing new horizons of the product scope.

Nathan (Nate) Blecharczyk is the Co-Founder of Airbnb and Chief Strategy Officer. Nate plays a leading role in driving key strategic initiatives across the global business, particularly those which require a holistic understanding of the business, public policy, product, data, and Airbnb’s long-term stakeholder interests. Nate has led the creation of Airbnb’s engineering, data science, payments, and performance marketing teams. More recently, he oversaw the creation of the Airbnb City Portal, an industry-first software solution that addresses the needs of cities relating to short-term rentals. In this episode, Nate will share a few very personal moments and experiences as an entrepreneur building and scaling Airbnb into one of the most enduring companies of our time in a fireside chat with Visionaries Club Founding Partner Robert Lacher.

Daniel Dines is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of UiPath, a leading provider of AI-powered enterprise automation software. Dines started UiPath in 2005 with the goal of building a solution that could help humans reduce the time and stress that come from menial, administrative business tasks. Today, Dines’ vision is to make software robots, powered by computer vision and AI, as common as PCs in the workplace. In this episode, Daniel will share some insights about the first days of UiPath and talk about what it takes to build a $30bn SaaS company out of Europe. Interviewed by none other than one of our SaaS portfolio founders from Europe - Hanno Renner, Founder and CEO of our portfolio company Personio.

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.