Daniel Dines says Rob Enslin decided to leave UiPath in May 2024.
“Rob decided to leave the company in May 2024”
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Daniel Dines
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Dines says Rob Enslin told him in a New York meeting after Q1 2024 that it would be better for Dines to take the company back.
“he told me that he thinks it's better that I take the company back.”
Dines says Rob Enslin considered resigning for personal reasons and needed time off, partly because family members were unwell.
“he considered to resign for personal reasons. He needed to spend some time off”
Dines says UiPath's original sales approach was land and expand, and that the company later over-focused on big deals.
“Our initial go to market was land and expand, and we overrotated the company to go mostly after big deals.”
After returning as CEO, Dines created an executive account program covering UiPath's top fifty 'diamond' customer accounts, with executives attached to each.
“I created an executive accounting program where we have our top fifty diamonds account”
Dines says UiPath moved more than half of its product and engineering organisation to building agentic products.
“we pivoted in, uh, in product and engineering overnight, basically, more than half of the organization into building the new agentic products”
Dines says UiPath re-platformed its workflow engine onto a much more modern technology.
“we've re-platformed our workflow engine to a much more modern technology”
Dines says robotic process automation is an established industry growing at low double-digit rates.
“RPA, it's an established industry right now that grows into like low double digits.”
Dines says UiPath's robots perform transactions across multiple systems in a fully deterministic, repeatable way.
“Our robots offer this fully deterministic way to do transactions across multiple systems”
Dines says UiPath uses and works closely with both OpenAI's Operator and Anthropic's computer-use technology and integrates them.
“computer use from Anthropic, which actually we are users of it, and we work closely with both of these companies to integrate their technology.”
In Dines's loan example, a workflow routes an application through a reading agent and a human check before a recommendation agent suggests approval.
“Then the workflow will send it to an agent that will make loan recommendations.”
Dines says SaaS software is licensed per user seat, and RPA reduced the seats needed because one account could do work of many users.
“saas software was licensed by user seats. With RPA, you need a lot less user seats”
UiPath offers an 'AI trust layer' that lets customers switch between AI model providers or use their own on-premises model.
“a piece of technology that we call AI trust layer, where they can actually switch between different providers or bring their own on prem model if they want.”
Dines says UiPath acquired Peak, which provides pricing and inventory agents built on agentic AI, to expand into vertical agents.
“Pick, it's a pricing and inventory agent, and they they have really solid experience in delivering this dedicated solutions based on agentic AI”
Dines says UiPath uses models from DeepSeek, Llama and Anthropic, among others, in different parts of its business.
“look at everything from deep seek, Lama, Anthropic, we use all of them in different parts of the business.”
Dines says fine-tuning can distill an open-source model into a smaller model that works well for one domain, lowering cost.
“with fine tuning, you can actually distill it into a smaller model that works very well for a particular domain.”