Danny Rimer
Partner, Index Ventures. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Danny Rimer joined Index Ventures in 2002 and established the firm's London and San Francisco offices. He has led early and landmark investments in companies such as Figma, Discord, Dropbox, Etsy, and Glossier.
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64said about them ↓ Everything Danny Rimer said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Danny Rimer: TAM and market size are noise in startup investing
“One of our tenants is definitely that market size TAM is noise.”
Danny Rimer: Index Ventures portfolio company Joost was a 'shit show'
“Being an investor in Juiced, which was a shit show”
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: 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: 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.”
Index Ventures' best investments have always been unanimous
“Our best decisions, our best investments have always been unanimous, which has a lot to do with the dynamic of the partnership being so varied and diverse in terms of who we are and how we approach things.”
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: Future VC will split into aggregators and artisans
“I mean, of course, we're trying to wedge ourselves in between, right? That's the plan, but I agree with you. I think there will be asset aggregators and artisans, and what we're trying to be, what we talk about internally, is scaled artisans.”
Index limits lead partners to one vote on exit decisions
“I mean, in our winners, it's a question of, first of all, just being disciplined about when to exit, and making sure that we are not sort of falling into the trap of thinking that because they've been successful, they will naturally be more successful over tim…”
Index Ventures avoided crypto because no partner found conviction
“We were trying to squint and figure out who was going to be the champion and was going to lead us to the promised land of being excited about crypto, and none of us could do it.”
Danny Rimer: London maintained pre-Brexit levels of entrepreneurial dynamism
“London has continued to maintain a real, basically an equivalent dynamism of entrepreneurialism as it did pre-Brexit, which is a total shock to me, but it's absolutely true.”
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 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: 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: Decisions must never be revisited or debated once made
“Your job is to make a decision. That's the concept of seeing a snake and killing it. You make a decision. The most important one is don't revisit that decision. Once you've made that decision, once you have commit, you're all in. You're not gonna, it's not up …”
Index Ventures missed investing in Spotify, Snap, Airbnb, and LinkedIn
“One is Spotify, another one is Snap, another one's Airbnb, another one's LinkedIn. Those are the four that we had real opportunity in some fashion or another to manufacture the opportunity for Index to be in the round, and we failed for different reasons.”
Index misjudged Airbnb by focusing on hotel cannibalization over market creation
“When one of the big lessons on Airbnb was when we were evaluating it, we were thinking, how many hotel rooms is Airbnb going to cannibalize? Rather than thinking, actually, Airbnb is going to create an entirely new market, an entirely, entirely new amount of i…”
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: 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: Larger VC funds delay carry and shift focus to fees
“We've always been focused on getting to carry as soon as possible. And the larger the funds, the longer it will take and the more attractive the management fee is.”
Danny Rimer: Rolex is a much better business than Apple
“Rolex actually sells more from a profit standpoint. Rolex and used Rolexes are a much better business than Apple.”
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: Almost no Index Ventures portfolio companies have mainstream brands
“Very few of our companies across the portfolio, and we have a pretty significant portfolio, and we thankfully have some great entrepreneurs, very few of them legitimately have brands yet. In fact, I'm not sure that any of them truly have mainstream brands.”
The other half of the tape: Danny Rimer's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 62 times in 22 episodes across the shows. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 54Martin Mignot 2Suchit Dash 1Shardul Shah 1Nikhil Basu Trivedi 1Mike Volpi 1Fred Destin 1Dylan Field 1
Statements about Danny Rimer, by other people (2)
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.”
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20VC 62
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 10 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 19 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jason Citron, Co-Founder/CEO @Discord: The Untold Story Behind Scaling to 200M Users | E1230 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Donald Tang: How SHEIN Got So Big So Fast - The Fastest Growing Company in History | E1208 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Chris Degnan: Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Sooner Than You Think | E1080 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 11 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- 20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom
- 20VC: Farfetch Founder, José Neves on Zen Buddhism and Its Impact on Leadership Mentality, Why Head vs Heart is Not the Right Way To Think About Decision-Making & How To Work Through Self-Doubt and Identity as a CEO
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2019 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: How To Optimise Decision-Making Frameworks, How To Really Get The Most Out Of Your Board and When Your Brother Is Also Your Co-Founder; The Secret To Working with Family with Rob Sadow, Founder & CEO @ Scoop
- 20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
- 20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto
- 20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
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| 20VCLEDGER | Partner, Index Ventures | 2 | 85 | 86% 6/7 | full record on 20VC → |