How did UiPath, the "Stone of his mountain", grow from outsourcing to an RPA unicorn?

Set off with a dream and don't ask the way back

UiPath's founder, Daniel Dines, is a Romanian who worked early for Microsoft in Seattle, USA. While working at Microsoft, a crazy idea arose: to go back to your home country and create a tech company.

He thought about it, said it, and did it, quit his job at Microsoft for more than 5 years, moved to his native Bucharest, Romania, and in 2005 founded DeskOver, a technology outsourcing company that mainly provides technology outsourcing services for Microsoft, Google, IBM and other companies.

According to our chain of disdain for the Internet and software industry, his early business was the most unpopular project outsourcing business at the bottom of the chain of contempt.

What he wants to do is to return to his hometown to create a technology, as for what the future will become, in fact, he does not know, but one thing he knows very well, his hometown, not as developed as the United States, when he founded the company, he had a global vision at the beginning, the business was not limited to his home country, and now there are many programmers, tired of the fast pace of the big city and the ubiquitous reinforced concrete, have a dream, but bear the pain of not going back, from daniel Dines' ideas and experiences, Maybe it will bring some inspiration.

Deliberately plant flowers and flowers, and wait for idle willows to shade

In 2013, DeskOver received a customer business automation project from a company in India, which won many similar projects because the project worked well and was favored by more and more companies.

Daniel Dines, who sniffed the business opportunities, decided to focus on RPA (Robotic Process Automation) software from 2014, and got a $1.6 million angel round investment, and then changed the company's brand name from DeskOver to UiPath, about 2015 launched the first desktop RPA software, in 2016 launched RPAPlus software suite, from 2017 to 2020, Open-ended completed four consecutive rounds of financing of ABCD, and went public in 2021, with a market value of more than $20 billion, ushering in the highlight moment of his life.

Started in 2005, and finally in 2014, after nearly 9 years of project outsourcing business, I inadvertently received this customer business automation project, like a rocket, after ignition, the speed can not stop.

Since I chose to go far away, I only cared about the wind and rain

Although the process is difficult, looking back at the memory has been blurred; no matter how beautiful the story is, it is someone else's after all; exploring the history of the development of UiPath, I do not want to increase some after-dinner talk, and I hope to find the strength to move forward from it.

The purpose of entrepreneurship is not to change the world, but to use their own abilities, strive to provide valuable products and services for society and others, so that everyone's work or life is more comfortable and better, because only in this way, this society, others will accept you, so as to achieve you.

What is the starting point of entrepreneurship is not important, what is important is what you want to do, what you can do, it is useful to society, to others, and does not miss any opportunity for development and growth.

To say a little episode, the founder of UiPath worked for Microsoft, and the technology was also adopted by Microsoft. NET platform, but as the big brother in the field of enterprise services, Microsoft, technology has, talent, and capital, but it has not done RPA very well.

Don't ask where the road ahead is, the road is at our feet that we walk tirelessly!