The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Daniel Dines fits The Pioneer archetype because his leadership story is defined by opening territory others had not mapped. He built UiPath from a small Bucharest outsourcing shop into a global leader in robotic process automation, effectively popularizing an entire software category and proving that a Romanian startup could reach a landmark New York listing.
“Yeah, and abundance creates monsters. I think almost all the time. It's like you cannot have a tennis player that just go and plays Wimble and win Wimbleon. They have to go through junior, they have to it's ten years from maybe seven to seventeen that makes a tennis player. Nobody can skip it in tennis.”
“My mind speaks well faster, my thought go well faster than my speaking rhythm. So sometimes I trying to keep a pace with my thoughts, so maybe it's a little bit unintelligible to... People in front of me. So I had to develop these skills to kind of explain more what I think a little bit in frameworks.”
“One that I like to remember it was nice was when we established in Japan and it was atypical for company. Our growth in Japan was for a couple of years higher than in the US, so established in a way in the same time in Japan as in US. So I was fascinated of Japan culture. Again, really good timing. Like this guy that coast.”
“They invented actually the word RPA. And they had more of an overarching platform to create bots. Only that our tool was way better than their tool to create one single bot. So that Indian guy for some reason didn't like blueprism. They thought they are a bit arrogant, inflexible.”
The Montgomery Summit: “Keynote Fireside Chat with Daniel Dines, UiPath at The Montgomery Summit 2020”
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