Robotic Process Automation

also referred to as: rpa

8 statements across 8 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Dec 20, 2019 by Brandon Deer · across every show →

Everything said about Robotic Process Automation, oldest first

Dec 20, 2019 bullish
Assertion Supported
RPA is growing 60% to 70% annually, with UiPath outperforming
“The category is, is one of the fastest growing software categories in the world right now. RPA is growing, As a group, 60, 70% year over year. UiPath is obviously well above that continuing to capture market share.”
Brandon Deer Dec 20, 2019 ▶ 16:56 20VC: Inside UiPath, The World's Fastest Growing Startup, How The Best Leaders Approach Decision-Making & WhY Vulnerability Is Central To SuccessFul Leadership Today with Brandon Deer, VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath
Apr 28, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Guo: Robotic process automation software will be reborn with AI
“RPA, big category of software, is gonna be obviously reborn.”
Sarah Guo Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 18:34 Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Carl Eschenbach Promised Sequoia Would Only Invest in UiPath Within RPA
“Carl decided that if Sequoia is gonna invest in RPA, he's gonna invest only in UiPath. Even before signing with him, he told me up front, very extreme candor.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 1:20:57 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 22, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Levie: Traditional RPA is frail and fails to handle business variability
“The challenge with RPA is, you know, RPA is relatively frail. It's often sort of, it's like looking at your computer screen and, you know, performing some kind of wrote, you know, routine actions doesn't handle variability very well. Because there's again, doe…”
Aaron Levie May 22, 2024 ▶ 11:49 Aaron Levie: How the Business Model of SaaS Changes Forever & Startups vs Incumbents:Who Wins?|E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 24, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Luan: Addressable Work for AI Agents Is 1,000x to 10,000x Greater Than RPA
“What's the percentage of work done today that's addressable by agents? It's like, A thousand X that maybe? 10,000 X that? I don't know. Something in that order of magnitude.”
David Luan Jun 24, 2024 ▶ 57:34 David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 18, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Dines: UiPath is rebuilding its software from scratch for agentic AI
“So we are building our agentic AI approach from the ground up, and we gave up on some of our, you know, RPA stuff in order to come on the new technology, New frameworks, building from scratch, because we want to build an AI first experience.”
Daniel Dines Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 8:54 Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 22, 2025 negative
Opinion
Sivulka: RPA is simple computation, not modern AI
“I think that I actually am not a big believer in RPA. I think RPA is a, is almost not an AI application in the new sense of AI. It's like AI in the old 10 years ago sense of AI where RPA, RPA is effectively, like, very simple computation.”
George Sivulka Jan 22, 2025 ▶ 25:12 George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 9, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Acharya: Computer vision models have fallen behind hype and expectations
“I mean, I think RPA is super interesting, but vision models haven't nearly kept up with the sort of, you know, the way that we've talked about them.”
Anish Acharya Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 57:27 a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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