Smith: Early robotic process automation had major execution flaws
Jennifer Smith · Her VCs said she killed the company. 6 years later, it's worth $1.3B. | Jennifer Smith, Founder o... · PMF Show · Dec 8, 2025 · at 19:54
Jennifer Smith, founder and CEO of Scribe, reflects on evaluating the rise of RPA and UiPath around 2018–2019 before founding Scribe.
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“There's like anyone who's followed it, like would say there's a ton of flaws that they were less evident to everybody at the time. But I think Are very evident now. And if you've spent kind of more than a minute looking at it at the time, you could have kind of seen the tea leaves. And so I was like, okay, I love the idea. I love the promise of this. I don't love the execution of this.”
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