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, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of UiPath, shares insights about the first days of UiPath and building a $30bn SaaS company out of Europe. The podcast explores the early background, identifying trends in RPA, overcoming challenges, reflection on growth and cultural shifts, and prioritizing customer needs.

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.