Closing the Year with Europe’s Largest Consumer IPOs of 2018, Spotify and Farfetch

The builders and investor behind the two largest consumer IPOs in Europe, Spotify and Farfetch, take a look at the road that led to the phenomenal year in European tech and discuss the issues Europe needs to still tackle to build the next wave of +$1B companies. On stage, Stefan Blom, former Chief Content Officer at Spotify, Pär-Jörgen Pärsön, General Partner at Northzone and 1st investor in Spotify, Andrew Robb, COO at Farfetch, Danny Rimer, General Partner at Index Ventures and investor in Farfetch and Marianne Vikkula, Board Member at Slush. -- In 2018, Slush brought together 20,000 attendees, including 3,100 startups, 1,800 investors and 650 journalists from over 130 countries. The cold and dark Helsinki welcomed these tech-heads to celebrate on Dec 3-5, 2018 with hundreds of side-events and activities around the city. Slush 2018 in pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushmedia/albums Website: http://www.slush.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slushHQ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slushHQ Instagram: http://instagram.com/SlushHQ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/slush Slush Tokyo: http://tokyo.slush.org Slush Shanghai: http://shanghai.slush.org Slush Singapore: http://singapore.slush.org Intro videos by: VAU (http://vau.company) VELI.fx / Veli Creative (http://velicreative.fi) Slush is a non-profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students and festival organizers. Slush has grown from a 300-person event to become the leading event of its kind in the world. The philosophy behind it has remained the same: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies forward.