[5] After graduating from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in history and literature,[1] he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

[1] In 1994, Rimer joined Hambrecht & Quist (now owned by JP Morgan), where he began an Internet sector equity research group.

[7] In his early years at Index, Rimer made a series of notable investments in infrastructure and services companies such as Skype, MySQL and Last.fm (acquired by CBS for $280 million).

[8][2] He later led the firm’s investments in 1stdibs, Anki, Boku, Dropbox (Nasdaq: DBX) (in which he led a series B round investment of $250 million in 2011),[9] Etsy (Nasdaq: ETSY), Farfetch (NYSE: FTCH), Flipboard, King (acquired by Activision in 2016 for $5.9 billion),[10] Zesty, and Beauty Pie,[11] among others.

[12] More recently, Rimer has received growing public attention for leading Index's investments in Discord, Patreon, Glossier, Beauty Pie, Otrium, Grailed, and Goat.