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Decoder with Nilay Patel

UiPath CEO Daniel Dines thinks automation can fight the great resignation

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.23.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Today Nilay Patel talking to Daniel Dines, the founder and CEO of UiPath, one of the biggest automation companies in the world. But not the automation you might think; UiPath sells software automation, or what consultants call “robotic process automation” so they can sound fancy and charge higher fees. UiPath and other software automation companies have a different approach to solving issues with your legacy software: just hire another computer to use software for you. Seriously: UiPath uses computer vision to literally look at what’s on a screen, and then uses a virtual mouse and keyboard to click around and do things in apps like Excel and Salesforce. The automations can be mundane, like generating lists of people to contact from public records, or intensely complicated: UiPath can actually monitor how different software is used throughout a company and suggest automations. Huge companies like Uber, Facebook, Spotify, and Google all use UIPath. Links: The robots are coming for your office UiPath AI Computer Vision Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/22828061 Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

0:07.0

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

0:13.0

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so guest.

0:17.0

For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so for that one change me a little.

0:24.0

Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:31.0

What the fuck?

0:36.0

You're kidding me! I'm so angry!

0:40.0

Look at this thing! You're kidding me!

0:45.0

Celebrate Italy not qualifying for the football with spicy Italian flavours, the ultimate spicy sausage.

0:52.0

With Enduja, a sausage more fiery than a disappointed Italian fan.

0:59.0

Subject to availability.

1:02.0

Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil Ipatell, editor and chief of the Virgin Decoder is my show about big ideas on the problems.

1:09.0

Today I'm talking to Daniel Dines, the founder and CEO of UI Path, one of the biggest automation companies around.

1:17.0

But not the automation you might think, the UI Path sells software automation or what consultants call robotic process automation so they can sound fancy and charge higher fees.

1:28.0

Let's be honest.

1:30.0

Robotic process automation or RPA is actually very simple to understand.

1:35.0

Let's say you have something in your business that relies on older software to do some repetitive task, like entering billion information or moving data from one system to another.

1:45.0

Now the intuitive way that most of us would think about making all that more efficient would be to upgrade or replace that old software to something with more capabilities.

1:56.0

But as we've hopefully all learned by now, new software often causes more problems than it solves.

2:02.0

There are compatibility issues, stability issues, and the general chaos of rolling it out and making sure it all works.

2:08.0

UI Path and other RPA companies have a different approach, and just hire another computer to use that software for you.

2:16.0

Seriously, UI Path uses computer vision to literally look at what's on the screen, and then uses a virtual mouse and keyboard to click around and do things in apps like Excel and Salesforce.

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