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Daniel Dines

42 statements across 4 episodes · 5 bullish · 12 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 22, 2024 by Daniel Dines · said 95 times in 23 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Apr 22, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Daniel Dines Learned English by Reading a Bridge Book With a Dictionary
“When I was like 1920, and I started to play bridge, I didn't know any English at all. But the only good books about bridge were in English. So actually, I and a friend of mine both together, we put, You know, we had very little money, so we put together money …”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 4:53 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024
Insight
Dines: Theoretical CS Backgrounds Create Better Software Architects Than Hands-On Tinkering
“I think there are two types of developers that I've seen in my life. Oh, there are the hacker types that learn coding, you know, just tinkering with the computer, and they are very good at finding, you know, different ways to do things that they always know. B…”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 16:41 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024
Disclosure
Dines: Giving Up the CEO Title Was Required to Hire Rob Enslin
“I realized that Rob probably is the best kind of go-to-market leader that we can have. But the only way to get him was to give him the CEO title.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 1:22:34 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Daniel Dines Saved $150,000 During Five Years at Microsoft Before Founding UiPath
“So in five years working in Microsoft, my old savings were like a 150,000 dollars.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 30:13 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Daniel Dines Helped Nicole Kidman Practice a Russian Accent for a Film
“She introduced once to Nicole Kipman, and I talked with her, like, five minutes, because Nicole was doing a movie, In Australia where she played someone with a Russian accent. And she thought that listening to me would help her.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 6:21 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Dines: Paul Graham Was Instrumental to His Thinking on Building UiPath
“Well, the guy that I think I learned the most in my formative years is Paul Graham. I've never met him in person. But it was instrumental to my thinking of building a company, and this is one guy that I would like to have on the board for sure.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 1:43:25 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Daniel Dines Rejected Sequoia Capital's Investment Offer for UiPath's Series B
“So I said basically no to Sequoia to our Series B, and we, Series B was led by Excel US, and Capital G, Kleiner Perkins, and some other people participated in, but I said no to Sequoia.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 1:19:22 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024 neutral
Insight
Dines: Speed Is Only Beneficial After Finding Product-Market Fit
“Speed is the most important thing when you have product market fit. If you don't product market fit, speed goes against you in a way. So it's, because if you go fast, With the wrong product. You only destroy yourself.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 1:42:18 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024
Insight
Dines: CEO Loneliness Stems From Absorbing Unactionable Internal Company Negativity
“And in, in my position, You know, you get to know all the shit that happens, most of the shit that happens in the company, and all the bad rumors, and all this guy did this, and this is not good for our culture, everything. It comes, and many times you don't e…”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 33:28 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024
Insight
Dines: Money Worries Disappear Once You Find People Who Appreciate Your Value
“When you don't doubt yourself, and you go to work and meet the people that appreciate you, this problem with money disappears. You'll always make money. And you'll always make good money. It's just getting to the right people.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 32:23 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024 negative
Opinion
Dines: Sequoia Capital Can Damage Startups by Backing Their Competitors
“And Sequoia can make, can damage a company investing in competitors helping them.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 1:20:22 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024 negative
Insight
Dines: Trading Off Team Chemistry for Executive Experience Almost Always Fails
“If there is no chemistry, this is not gonna work. So because of my imposter syndrome, I tended to trade off chemistry for experience. And with very rare exceptions, it always went bad.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 35:58 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
UiPath Hit Zero Bank Balance While Employing 100 People Before Series A
“Between seed series and series A that we did here in London with Axel, I had to raise a bridge round from my investors, from existing investors, and we were negotiating for a long time, like, to do a cap, like, 20% cap, and they wanted the cap, and I wanted un…”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 11:28 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dines: 30 Minutes of Deep Programming Focus Completely Relieved His Anxiety
“If I went in front of a computer, and I could focus like 30 minutes, and start to work, after that my anxiety was gone completely, and I just got peace.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 23:27 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024
Insight
Dines: Work-Life Balance Is Impossible When Building a Company
“Yeah, part of me would say, don't fucking start a company, man. Get a nice job. And have fun. And because I don't believe in In work-life balance. And because in a way, building a company is gonna suck you into building the company. I don't think you can reall…”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 1:28:10 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
UiPath Founder Daniel Dines Lived on $1 a Day in Early Life
“I was living on like, 30 dollars a month. It's one dollar a day, right? At times, I didn't have money to eat properly.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 0:00 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024
Assertion Supported
Daniel Dines Bootstrapped UiPath for 10 Years Before Raising VC Funding
“Because I bootstrapped UiPath for, like, 10 years.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 10:27 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024 negative
Insight
Dines: Founders Who Skip Early Operational Struggles Fail During Tough Decisions
“Abundance creates monsters. It's like you cannot have a tennis player that just go and plays Wimbledon and win Wimbledon. They have to go through junior or they have to, it's 10 years. Right? From maybe seven to 17 that makes a tennis player. I don't think the…”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 47:57 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024 negative
Insight
Dines: The 'Hire Slow, Fire Fast' Mantra Is Not Applicable in Reality
“This idea that higher Higher slow, fire fast. In a way it's, well, it's good, it reads good on paper, but it's not applicable in, in real life.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 36:18 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024
Disclosure
UiPath Churned Through Four to Five Executive Teams Before Its IPO
“It was four or five probably, yes, until we went public.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 44:28 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024
Insight
Dines: Hyper-Growth Startups Naturally Outpace Executive Operational Capacity
“Most people will have a range where they can operate well. And in a hyper-growth startup, the company grows faster than their range.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 43:33 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024
Insight
Dines: Not Changing Considerably Every Six Months Signifies Failure
“If you feel like you didn't change considerably in the last six months, that means you did something wrong.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 25:38 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2024
Assertion Supported
UiPath Took Nine Years to Reach $480K in ARR
“I'm friends with Daniel at UiPath and I had him on the show, and I mean, he was not, I mean, slower than you, so don't mind, he was nine years to 480 K in ARR.”
Harry Stebbings Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 21:25 Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024
Insight
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines says he lives mostly inside his own head
“I am a lonely wolf. I find life pretty lonely, man. That's not only about this job, but I live mostly in my head. Thinking, analyzing, reflecting. This is how I spend my life.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 0:17 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024
Insight
Dines: Material desires waste cognitive bandwidth better spent on AI and learning
“Thinking about a bigger kitchen will take cycles from reading, understanding world, understanding people, understanding AI.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 53:58 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Daniel Dines says current LLMs cannot reason and require architectural leaps
“Every industry will be subject for a big change, but I also believe that we need a new giant leap in order to get there. I think, I don't believe that actual LLMs reason in the sense that I expect a guy with a 120 IQ reason. It's still, it's a stochastic engin…”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 37:32 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024 neutral
Insight
Dines: Building a good AI prompt is harder than writing code
“Building an agent requires creating a prompt, and building a good prompt, it's actually more difficult than building building a script.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 32:09 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024
Insight
Daniel Dines believes a lack of discipline is essential for stimulating creativity
“I believe in some certain lack of discipline. It's very important in order to stimulate creativity.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 57:06 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024 negative
Disclosure
UiPath has frozen software engineering hiring to repurpose staff for AI
“No, we are not hiring as well. We have repurposed a lot of engineers from products that we de-emphasize into Agenda.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 51:47 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024 negative
Insight
Daniel Dines says never compromise personal chemistry for executive experience
“I hired for experience. And I should have never done compromise on chemistry for experience.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 51:04 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dedicated AI models will be built on open-source, not closed frontier models
“So obviously there will be a world A few frontier models and a lot of dedicated models, and dedicated models will be built on the top of, I think is more likely to be built on the top of open source models that, you know, close source frontier models.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 7:51 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024 positive
Insight
Dines: Direct feedback is appreciation, indirect communication is a bad sign
“Actually what I'm telling people that where we, that I work with in a very direct style, that's a sign of appreciation. The moment you see that I I'm, you know, working around, and I'm finding my words. That's not really a good sign.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 49:42 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dines: Generative AI has not been successful in enterprise so far
“AI, Gen AI was not so successful in enterprise so far.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 26:43 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024
Insight
Daniel Dines says running a company is hard because only problems escalate
“The hardest part is to manage the unhappiness of people. I guess, look, good news don't go to me. Really. They are in day by day, in their day by day jobs, but everything that is not working well goes up to me, so I have to deal. But that's not only being CEO …”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 57:39 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024
Disclosure
Daniel Dines managed UiPath product directly while Rob Enslin was CEO
“No, I was, I, actually, I never left the company. Ok, so, I ran product and engineering directly, while Rob was co-CEO and CEO.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 45:27 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024 neutral
Insight
Daniel Dines defines enterprise AGI as predictable 120 IQ multitask capability
“AGI for enterprises would be when I have an LLM that has the capabilities of a guy with an average IQ like a 120 points. But predictably. Not a 180 in some fancy math jobs and 60 into, you know, other type of job. Predictably. This is AGI.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 36:50 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024 negative
What-if
Daniel Dines admits UiPath should have moved into agentic AI earlier
“We should have landed into a genetic six months. Six months earlier, yes, that, that's for sure.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 51:23 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024 neutral
Insight
Dines: Stock price matters for hiring and building, not personal wealth
“So stock price is important. Not for my, you know, wealth, for how much money I can spend in this life. But it's important for what we can build, for the talent that we can attract.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 55:59 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024 negative
Disclosure
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines does not conduct scheduled one-on-ones with direct reports
“People put too much importance on being disciplined, and having, you know, regular one-to-ones. I don't believe in one-to-ones with my directs.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 48:31 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dines: AI models have reached maturity and won't innovate materially soon
“I personally don't believe that the models can innovate in a material way in a reasonable amount of time. I think they reach maturity in a way.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 5:14 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dines: Human validation of AI will focus only on complex edge cases
“These validations will be actually mostly on the difficult cases in, in the longer term.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 30:27 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Stebbings: UiPath took nine years to hit $550k ARR
“You know, one of yours is UiPath, and he's a dear friend of mine, Daniel. And I mean, it took nine years to get to 550 K of ARR.”
Harry Stebbings Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 42:09 Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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