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Danny Rimer

41 statements across 4 episodes · 7 bullish · 11 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 3, 2018 by Danny Rimer · said 62 times in 22 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Dec 3, 2018 negative
Disclosure
Danny Rimer: Nasty Gal Was His Worst Investment to Date
“So a big lesson was in the worst investment that I've done today, which is Nasty Gal, which was an e-commerce brand that we invested in.”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 32:48 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018 negative
Insight
Danny Rimer: VCs Are Poor at Predicting Dramatic Platform Shifts
“It's really difficult to call when there's going to be a dramatic shift from the current mainstream platform to the next, and actually, I don't think it's necessarily something that VCs do really well in predicting.”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 8:29 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018
Insight
Danny Rimer: Founders Rarely Grow Into the Ambition Needed for Global Scale
“It's really rare that folks grow into it. They actually have to start with that level of ambition.”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 17:43 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018 positive
Opinion
Danny Rimer: Only a Musician Like Jack Conti Could Have Built Patreon
“I would say that Jack Conti at Patreon is in fresh in my mind right now because we had a board meeting recently, but Jack is a musician, right? His passion for what he's doing at Patreon to enable creators to not live hand to mouth, but actually have a platfor…”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 28:25 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018
Assertion Supported
Danny Rimer Clarifies Index Ventures' Founding History and Initial Investors
“Yeah, so to be clear, I wasn't one of the founders of Index, though many members with my last name were. So probably my dad gets the original credit because his investors and his bond brokerage business ended up being the first investors at Index, and two of t…”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 3:54 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018
Insight
Danny Rimer: VCs Get Paid for Finding Winners, Not Dodging Failures
“We don't get paid for dodging companies that are not successful. Most companies are not going to be successful. So the schadenfreude or The pat on the back for having missed or not invested in something that could have been a disaster, that's not really helpfu…”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 32:02 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Danny Rimer: Enterprise Software Is Adopting Consumer Selling Metaphors
“So whether it's Dropbox, or Slack, or the Microsoft, the three, six, five efforts, or what Adobe is magnificently doing, a lot of the enterprise is actually moving towards the consumer metaphor to sell software.”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 7:36 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018
Insight
Danny Rimer: VC Partners Must Act as Temporary Stewards for Future Generations
“The mindset is that you're not here for the rest of time, but you're here for a short period of time, and you have to make it matter as much as possible. Make sure that you're not letting down your partners, and make sure that the next generation see you as an…”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 24:18 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018
Insight
Danny Rimer: Founders Passionate About General Business Rather Than Specifics Fail
“I probably would say that with me, everything starts with a passion that folks around here joke, because if someone comes to me for wanting to work at index or starting a business and they're passionate about business, they're not going to go very far. You kno…”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 27:26 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018 positive
What-if
Danny Rimer: Startups Should Have Maximized Spend on Early Google AdWords
“And of course, at that time, all we should have done is plowed as much money as we could against that platform.”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 13:35 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018
Insight
Danny Rimer: VCs Shouldn't Prioritize Equity Ownership Over Helpful Syndicate Partners
“So that, that was a big lesson that I learned relatively recently, which is never really focused so much on ownership and make sure that you have people around the table who are going to be really helpful in the journey of making a successful company.”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 33:26 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018 negative
Insight
Danny Rimer: Excess Capital Leads to Operational Laxity and Repeated Mistakes
“In our experience, the more money you have, the more lax you are, the more likely you are to make repeated mistakes across multiple places at the same time.”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 19:36 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018 neutral
Assertion Supported
Danny Rimer: Amazon Spends More on R&D Than Any Tech Company Historically
“I guess they're spending more on R&D than any other company in the history of technology at this point.”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 10:36 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018 bullish
Disclosure
Danny Rimer Cares Least About Valuation and Initial Market Size
“So if my partners were around the table, they'd probably tell you that I'm probably the partner who cares least about price, that if I think that the entrepreneur and the opportunity is large enough, I just want to be an investor in that company, and that I'm …”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 29:37 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018 neutral
What-if
Danny Rimer: Nasty Gal Could Have Succeeded With Co-Investor Board Support
“And I often think that what I should have done was share the workload with Someone else who's super competent and who would have been really helpful in the journey, because there were a lot of reasons why nasty gal could have been a phenomenal investment, but …”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 33:04 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018
Assertion Supported
Danny Rimer Maintained Buy Ratings on All 1990s Internet IPOs
“So I co-authored one of the first reports, if not shamefully the first report on the internet, And then was an internet analyst for the first wave of the internet, so from 94 to 99, and I had all buys on all my universe of stocks, so we took Amazon public, and…”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 5:39 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018
Insight
Danny Rimer: Board Members Should Listen More and Deliver One Key Point
“Probably what I've realized is I end up spending a lot less time talking and spending a lot more time listening and figuring out what is the one piece of key advice that I want to provide.”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 30:52 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018
Insight
Danny Rimer: Organic Community Connection Is the Most Valuable Long-Term Asset
“Because from a longevity standpoint, that community connection is going to be the most valuable, no matter what.”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 14:02 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018
Insight
Danny Rimer: European Startups Must Master Regional Markets Before Global Expansion
“European entrepreneurs have that discipline because they're required to have that discipline, that you don't have the size of market and the cohesion of market that you have in the U.S. And so you really have to nail that regional example and experiment first.”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 18:50 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018 positive
Insight
Danny Rimer: Diverse Teams Protect Scaling Startups From Groupthink
“And what I mean by diverse team is backgrounds, ages, obviously genders, experience, culture, so that you're sheltering yourself from the groupthink that sets in when you hire people from the same university or the same generation with very similar experiences…”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 20:01 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018 positive
Insight
Danny Rimer: Consumer Startups Must Measure Organic Marketing Channels Early
“In the areas that companies take for granted, because usually they found product market fit, and so there's going to be a number of elements on the marketing side that just happen, but the earlier you start measuring them and predicting them, the more successf…”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 16:48 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Dec 3, 2018
Insight
Danny Rimer: VCs Must Spend Most Time With Companies Needing Them Least
“I mean, I would say that this is the biggest difference between a venture capitalist and an operator. You have to figure out how to spend the most amount of time with the companies that need you least, and the least amount of time with companies that need you …”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 33:54 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Jun 17, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Index Ventures' biggest mistakes come from holding investments too long
“The biggest mistakes that we've done as a firm is holding on too long rather than selling too early.”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 42:33 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2034
Danny Rimer: Staying at Index in ten years indicates a failed transition
“I shouldn't be there in 10 years. If I'm still there, I'm doing something wrong, or they, or they're doing something wrong. So I'd like to see that the baton has been passed, and that the folks are taking Index to Higher and higher territory, but maintaining w…”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 1:23:19 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024
Insight
Danny Rimer: Great companies can go public in any market environment
“I do believe that the best companies at that stage when they are ready to go public can go public in any market.”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 24:57 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Danny Rimer: Apple hitting $1T re-calibrated his ceiling for scale
“I mean, you know, honestly, I hadn't really thought about companies being worth multiple trillions until, until Apple hit that trillion number.”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 21:42 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024
Insight
Danny Rimer: Apple and Airbnb are rare exceptions in product-driven marketing
“Most companies that have been successful, be they enterprise or consumer in the tech space, The marketing has been a byproduct of a great product or service. Really, the exception to the rule would be Apple, and probably Airbnb, and I'm, and I scratch my head …”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 34:07 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024
Insight
Danny Rimer: Investors should abandon theses to back extraordinary founders
“If the person's extraordinary, throw all theses out the window and just back the founder.”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 0:03 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Danny Rimer: Not doubling down on Nvidia was a big mistake
“Clearly, I mean, I invested in NVIDIA. I should have doubled down a lot more when I did a couple of years ago. That, that was a big mistake.”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 23:36 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024 negative
Opinion
Danny Rimer: Languishing SaaS companies suffer from poor execution, not markets
“And the ones that are languishing Probably is more a reflection of execution and product market fit at this point rather than rather than the fact that they're languishing for other reasons.”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 22:42 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024 negative
Opinion
Danny Rimer: Operators do not necessarily make the best investors
“That's part of the reason why I think that operators are not necessarily the best investors.”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 1:00:12 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Danny Rimer: Rescue attempt for Nasty Gal carried high opportunity cost
“And I did get a positive vote, but it was not the high average that I got on the first one, and so I felt responsible to the partners that I didn't put good money after bad, and not only did I put good money after bad, but the opportunity cost of spending time…”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 1:00:58 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024 negative
Insight
Danny Rimer: VCs should prioritize gut instinct over analytical decision rationalization
“And I'm sort of saying actually, you know, what is the first impact? What is the first reaction that you have to the founder, to the opportunity? How does it make you feel? Can you build on that? Like, all of that other stuff is actually gonna help you rationa…”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 1:15:35 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Figma took over three years to build its initial alpha
“So, so, so an example is in the case of Figma, clearly it was going to take three years plus To come up with an alpha. But that was more a question of, were they going to be able to deliver the product of significance enough to be relevant and to dominate the …”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 25:52 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024
Insight
Danny Rimer: VC signaling risk is largely a thing of the past
“I think there's so much money sloshing around and so many folks have so many different funds that signal risk is, is more of the past. I mean, if you look at the continuum of entrepreneurial power versus investor power over the last couple of decades, It's onl…”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 28:29 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Index Ventures will not significantly expand fund sizes over ten years
“First of all, that the partnership is not much bigger than it is today, that our funds are not much bigger than it is today, but that our returns have only gotten better”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 1:22:25 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024 negative
Opinion
Danny Rimer: Sector, impact, and geographic funds compromise on investment quality
“I'm not a huge fan of sector funds because I think that with sectors, you're not looking for the best companies. You're looking for the best company in that sector. I'm not a fan of impact funds because you're rationalizing A mediocre investment because you're…”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 29:29 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Index Ventures scales new offices by relocating existing partners
“When we open offices, we don't actually hire folks to open the office. We actually take partners from one office and move them.”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 1:04:53 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024 negative
Insight
Danny Rimer: Avoid investing in second-derivative market creation plays
“Probably more patient on the technology and the amount of time that it takes to come to fruition rather than a question of whether the market is going to be Excited, you know, that I have to, I would call that a second derivative play. Not only does the produc…”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 25:19 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 16, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shah: Default first meeting length is 30 minutes
“When I started my career every meeting default was an hour. Danny reminded me that I probably know the answer in 15 minutes, and so now the default first meeting I have is 30 minutes.”
Shardul Shah Sep 16, 2024 ▶ 5:24 Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 11, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mignot: Index Ventures has no CEO and operates as an equal partnership
“Well, first of all, there is no one running index, and Danny doesn't have a mantle. You know, it's a pure purely equal partnership.”
Martin Mignot Aug 11, 2025 ▶ 1:18:05 Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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