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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? This wasn’t very impressive, but we had two things going for us: A hockey stick shaped growth curve.

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From humble beginnings to market leadership: UiPath rings the NYSE bell!

Cracking the Code

Founded in Bucharest, and now headquartered now in New York City, UiPath rang the bell this morning at the NYSE, becoming the largest public cloud company born in Europe. After going $0 to $1mm in their first 10 years, UiPath has now hockey-sticked to over $600mm in revenue in 2020, and the automation market is still in early innings.