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Embracing the adventure and leading to Endure: The story of Airbnb

Embracing the adventure and leading to Endure: The story of Airbnb

28m 15s

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...

The Story of UiPath

The Story of UiPath

32m 18s

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...

Index Unplugged: working with entrepreneurs across decades and continents

Index Unplugged: working with entrepreneurs across decades and continents

27m 5s

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...