From Communism to Coding: How Daniel Dines Built a $7B UiPath Empire

You might associate bots with Russian election ruses 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.

How can your company take advantage of RPA?