AI doesn't kill RPA. AI makes RPA smarter. A robot that can also understand a document, read an email, and make a judgment call is exponentially more valuable.
I bootstrapped UiPath from a Bucharest apartment for ten years. Then in three years we went from unknown to a $35 billion company. Patience has a way of compounding.
A robot for every person. That's not a slogan — it's the inevitability. Every knowledge worker will have a software robot handling their busywork.
RPA sounds boring. It IS boring. That's the whole point — we automate the boring stuff so humans can do the interesting stuff.
We trained 500,000 developers for free through UiPath Academy before most of them even worked at companies that paid us. That's how you build a market.
Coming from Romania was an advantage. We didn't have Silicon Valley overhead. We could build enterprise software at a fraction of the cost while the market matured.