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Dines: Encoder-decoder models beat decoder-only models on semi-structured documents
“We believe that encoder-decoder models are better for when you deal with semi-structured documents than decoder-only models.”
Most corporate partnerships are marketing hype without direct leadership ties
“Most partnership are just marketing announcement hype. But if there is no personal connection, it's not will on both parties to make it happen, it's not gonna work.”
Technical founders will never understand enterprise sales to the bare metal
“One of the issues I think a technical founder has is that they will never understand sales to the bare metal.”
Dines: Operational sales rigor does not matter for early-stage startups
“Initially, for a startup, I think it's operationally doesn't matter, in my opinion. All it matters, it's built an extreme customer-centric culture.”
UiPath CEO: Enterprise founders must love sales to hire great salespeople
“Especially in enterprise business, sales is as important as the technology, and it's not enough for them to understand the basic of sales. They need to love it. Because if you don't love it, you are not gonna hire really good people.”
Dines: Tapping technical business users was key to UiPath's success
“This is one of the pillar of our success. We tapped into a rather large population of people that are not necessarily pro devs, but they have a basic programming knowledge, and they can easily be trained into our technology, and they can deliver automation.”
Dines: Automation development is simpler than full-blown software engineering
“Because an automation is a species of application development, but it's way simpler than to deliver a full-blown application. You don't have to understand so many concepts about reusability and security and all this, you know, the whistles and the bells of tru…”
Dines: Founders should not build a product in search of a market
“We build a product in the search of a market, actually, but unexpectedly we found the market, which is not, I would not recommend to anyone do this, but that, that happened.”
Dines: Automation is the only way BPOs can deliver ongoing savings
“So they initially start with some kind of business process engineering, which is pure, you know, it's working on the flowchart and understanding how you can remove unnecessary trips in the process. But after that, automation is the only game in town.”
Dines: Lacking a local market forces founders to think globally from day one
“Starting out of Romania has the advantage that Romania has no market, so we had to think globally, so, and remotely.”
Dines: Large enterprises lack a single repository of truth for processes
“Because even if it's counterintuitive, in large enterprises, there is no single repository of truth. And knowledge about what they are doing.”
Dines: Building too large a system from day one creates software spaghetti
“Because if you start Too big of a system. Day one, you'll end up with the spaghetti and nothing works.”
Dines: Partners open enterprise doors, but direct sales must close deals
“In our case, partners are not so important for us for reselling the technology. Partners are important to open the door and to implement our technology. But to win the deal, it's us. It's rare that the partner can win the deal for us.”
Pitching public investors requires a single, perfectly consistent narrative
“When you talk to private investors, you have a lot of time to explain them the business. When you talk to public investors, you have to be a way more crisp, and you should tell the same story to everyone. You cannot deviate and give to some people more informa…”