From Communism To Coding: How Daniel Dines of $7B UiPath Became the First Bot Billionaire
October 29, 2020
You might associate bots with Russian election ruses (link in comments) or customer service stand-ins, but UiPath, valued at $7 billion, sells a more humdrum kind that can pull numbers from invoiced PDFs into accounting software, or process insurance claims—mindless tasks that will go the way of the dodo. This shift—which has spawned an entirely new tech category, known as “robotic process automation,” or RPA—carries eye-popping potential.
