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: Programmers Are Artists Who Experience Total Flow by Creating Software
“The work of programmers are in a way lucky and happy creatures, because they build something. They are creators, you know, they are, in a way, artists, so they get the feeling of being completely in the flow.”
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.”
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…”
UiPath Finished 2015 With $500K in Revenue Upon Raising First Funding
“So we raised the first one in 2015. And we finished the year with, like half a million in revenue.”
UiPath Raised a $1.6M Seed Round at an $8.1M Post-Money Valuation
“1.6 million to, I think, 8.1 post.”
Dines: Leaders Must Explain Decision Rationales Rather Than Just Announcing Rules
“Provide clarity to people. Explain the rules. Explain, basically, explain your decisions. You don't have to say, this is, we decided this and this, because it will always create interpretations, temptations, explain them clearly, and explain what is uncharted …”
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: Document Processing Is the Primary Viable Enterprise AI Application Today
“But I think there will be certain use, especially in understanding documents, reading documents, long documents, summarization of documents. This is gonna be really where we can apply AI as of today.”
Dines: Early customer warned UiPath lost touch by chasing revenue
“Last week, I had a call with one of our first customer, a huge advertising agency, and this guy, and we are really good friends. We play tennis together. So, told me, Daniel, I'm disappointed in in what you guys are doing. You lost touch with us. You just go o…”
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.”
UiPath's first customer paid $10,000 without negotiation after Dines guessed the price
“And he asked me, how much do you want for a license? And I thought, look, I had no idea. So, In a, on a, you know, on a hunch, I said, like, 10,000 dollars, and next day, basically, he wired the money without any negotiation, nothing.”
UiPath made at most $200,000 per year until 2013
“So for a few years, until like, 2000 13, We were basically an OEM SDK business. Not very lucrative. I think most, I think at most we made like 200 K per year, which is kind of enough for it. It was like five people in the company, five developers.”
Dines: Document understanding is one of UiPath's fastest-growing businesses
“In one of our fastest growing business is this document understanding business.”
UiPath's DocPath and ComPath AI models are T5-based LLMs trained on company data
“Yes, they are yes, this is what I refer to. They are these T-five based LLMs, but trained with a lot of A lot of the data that we gather.”
Dines: Many UiPath enterprise customers use multiple LLMs
“We discovered that many of our customers actually use multiple LLMs.”
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.”
Dines: 1990s Romanian Universities Suffered From Rigid Communist Mindsets
“You need to picture, like, early, 19, 90, Romania, just full of communism, but all the professors, the atmosphere was still very communist, ugly, people with kind of a fixed mindset.”
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 Bootstrapped UiPath for 10 Years Before Raising VC Funding
“Because I bootstrapped UiPath for, like, 10 years.”
Dan Lupu Offered UiPath an Uncapped Bridge Round With 25% Discount
“Dan Lupo, which is great friend of mine, and he was the first investor that discovered UiPath, came to me and say, okay, Daniel, we can do unlimited, but it's gonna be 25% discount.”
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.”
UiPath Held $500M to $600M in Cash Reserves in 2019
“We had like, I think like, 506 hundred million in the bank.”
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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2026 12 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
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- 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
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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.
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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 → |