Daniel Dines
Founder & CEO, UiPath. On 3 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Daniel Dines co-founded UiPath in Bucharest in 2005, bootstrapping it into a leading robotic process automation company before its 2021 NYSE public listing. Widely recognized as one of Romania's wealthiest individuals, he returned as UiPath's CEO in 2024 to oversee its agentic AI strategy.
3shows
4appearances
126statements
13resolved
9supported
2contradicted
69%fully supported
109said about them ↓ Everything Daniel Dines said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
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.”
Dines: LLM-based AI agents act like 'idiot savants' with unpredictable reliability
“Not because we are scared, because they are like idiot savants. Sometimes they can be extremely smart, sometimes they can be extremely dumb. And you have no idea right now how to distinguish between these two scenarios.”
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…”
Dines: Scaling GPU compute with current algorithms will not yield godlike AI
“Look, I think it's, it would be an easy investment if there is a predictable outcome, but I don't, do you really think that just adding GPUs and with the existing algorithm to train, they will suddenly become, become godlike, intelligent? I don't understand. A…”
Daniel Dines claims UiPath's technology is much harder to build than Salesforce's
“Look, with all respect to Salesforce, our technology is much harder to build.”
Scaling compute and GPUs alone won't yield autonomous enterprise AI
“I'm not an expert in the field, but I believe that this is gonna we need Another giant leap of innovation to get there. I'm not sure just throwing compute and increasing the number of GPUs without some fundamental discovery, it's gonna create this.”
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.”
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…”
Dines: Work-Life Balance Is 'a Stupid Thing for Everyone'
“I don't like balance, work-life balance. This is a stupid thing for everyone. You have to be immersed.”
Dines: Masayoshi Son's 'You Are Not Crazy Enough' Ethos Is Bullshit
“When I heard the Masayoshi-san saying, you are not crazy enough, that's bullshit, guys. I am fucking crazy, and I can be crazy enough, but I am gonna burn billions of dollars. I will overbrown the market with reps, and then they will step each other's toes, an…”
Dines: SoftBank-backed rival built bloated company ruined by COVID
“Our main competitor at that time were trying to catch us, especially with SoftBank money. So they were pouring a lot of money into the, into everything. Sales, marketing, build a blotted company, and COVID hit, and they were fucked.”
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.”
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.”
Dines: RPA Bots Are Low-Skilled Workers, AI Agents High-Skilled Workers
“Think about as a metaphor, like, robots are more like low-skilled employees, while agents are high-skilled employees. But you manage them within the same platform.”
Dines: Enterprise clients prefer automation workflows to fail rather than be 'too smart'
“Look, one story that I keep hearing from our customers is they prefer our workflows to fail than to be too smart. Because their risk appetite for this type of workloads, it's low.”
Dines: Enterprise AI agents will recommend, not act directly without human validation
“Agents will make recommendations. Agents are not gonna take actions directly. There will be a progression from agents making recommendations, going to a human user for validating, and then calling an action.”
Dines: Fully autonomous AI agents will take as long as self-driving cars
“As long as it's gonna take for you know, the nice self-driving cars that we have today to be fully autonomous and to drive, you know, asides with people on the streets and they will just work.”
Dines: Enterprise Clients Won't Move Epic Data to Salesforce For Agents
“I was talking to the CIO, which is close to us, and he said, I will never put data from Epic into Salesforce in order to create an agent. Never. There is no chance to do this. So, It's as simple as this. They will prefer to use us to have connectors, feed agen…”
Dines: Generative AI has not been successful in enterprise so far
“AI, Gen AI was not so successful in enterprise so far.”
Dines: Wide-scale agentic AI deployment will take 5 to 10 years
“I think it's gonna take next five, 10 years to, with the current state-of-the-art LLMs, it's gonna take next five to 10 years to get to very wide scale deployment of agentic plus automation.”
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.”
Dines: Nvidia will struggle to maintain current chip dominance against hyperscalers
“It's hard to see it at existing levels, and think about, I think half of NVIDIA revenue today is from these five hyperscalers, so, and if they are all in the business of building, it's kind of, I think it's hard, but obviously NVIDIA has such an important, you…”
Dines: Public markets reward steady 30% YoY growth over hypergrowth deceleration
“I think it's better to plan and execute a growth of 30% year over year rather than 80, 60, 3020, 10, you know, because in a way doing such a huge aggressive growth makes you maybe sometimes steal from the future. Not knowingly, but you discover in time. I thin…”
The other half of the tape: Daniel Dines's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 106 times in 29 episodes across the shows. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 67Jason Lemkin 11Jason Calacanis 8Brandon Deer 7Robert Lacher 4Eric Liaw 4Laela Sturdy 2Rob Lacher 1
Statements about Daniel Dines, by other people (3)
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.”
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.”
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20VC 95
the Official SaaStr Podcast 11
2026 12 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 21 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
- George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: The Science of Storytelling: Three Steps to Master the Perfect Story | From Near Death Experience to Unicorn Startup: The Untold Story of Omaze with Matt Pohlson
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2024 42 mentions in 12 episodes 4 per episode
- Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Navigating Fundraising and the VC Landscape Today with 20VC and Visionaries Club
- Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS In 2023: Part 1 AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- Why The Era of Efficient Growth is Now: The State of the Market with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- Why You're Unfundable Today: The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS Part 2 with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- Rob Lacher: How I Scaled to $600M AUM; Hiring Tips for VCs; Venture Capital in Europe vs USA | E999 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 4 mentions in 1 episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Daniel's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| 20VCLEDGER | Founder & CEO, UiPath | 2 | 81 | 57% 4/7 | full record on 20VC → |
 MADLEDGER | Founder & CEO, UiPath | 1 | 34 | 75% 3/4 | full record on the MAD Podcast → |
| SAASTRLEDGER | Founder & CEO, UiPath | 1 | 11 | 100% 2/2 | full record on the Official SaaStr Podcast → |