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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.”
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 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.”
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.”
UiPath Churned Through Four to Five Executive Teams Before Its IPO
“It was four or five probably, yes, until we went public.”
UiPath uses Alibaba's open-source Qwen model for semi-structured documents
“We are using Gwen, which is a fantastic model built by Alibaba, which is totally open source. We are using it into understanding, like a lot of our semi-structured documents”
Dines: UiPath's main challenges are becoming AI-first and re-energizing staff
“My biggest challenge is is transforming the company to be an AI-first company, and re-energizing our people that you know, we had...”
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.”
Dines: UiPath spent two years fine-tuning LLMs with moderate success
“So over the last two years, we we've spent a lot of time really trying to fine tune LLMs, build around them, and certain degree of success.”
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.”
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.”