So can you explain to me how that happened? How did you first get into marketing?

Yeah, I mean, I've said before that I stumbled into it a bit, which is half true, half not true, I suppose.

I was at Microsoft.

I joined Microsoft.

from sort of a more technical career path where I was imagining myself heading into a product leadership role.

And I was hired into an engineering team.

I was given a job titled technical evangelist, and it was in fact to be a developer relations guy is the best way to put it in modern terms.

One of the things we talked about, obviously, this kind of chaotic operating environment that we all live in at the moment, Are there things that you do or that you have done or you've seen done that help to bring things together to create a sense of coherence? Coherence within the team, perhaps, or coherence in the way that you go to market as a business?

forward,

move civilization forward, move the product of the economy forward.

I think we're there now.

with AI, I think what UiPath is endeavoring to do is really find those pathways to change the dynamics of individual roles, individual work, individual industries in ways that I think will transform, we think, that will transform the way work gets done in each of those discrete places.

And I think those discrete places are the interesting, I think, places for true transformation inside a business.

the handoffs between organizations the handoffs between businesses the way that one person's role might be changed into something that is either easier better faster and the way that that easier better faster connects to easier better faster and the other side of a table and suddenly two easier better fasters are easier better faster together i think those are the types of of in like discrete workforce transformation moments that are happening day to day to day week to week right now that our technology is about changing.

And I actually think that you are correctly pointing out that both things can happen.

Do you feel a call to, like, what do you think UiPath's role is in that?

But do people think about ecosystem, and I guess it's probably a good question for you, Michael, do people think about ecosystem as a partner-led or a collaboration between other companies to enable you to build that ecosystem?

It's sort of yes and yes for any customer.

Well, actually, any company to be successful in this era of AI, it is unquestionable that they must first and foremost recognize that it is an ecosystem that is required.

I mean, there will always be, in every evolution of the tech industry, there has been a set of companies.

Today, they might be the cloud providers or the hyperscalers or the line of business application providers.

lead customers to believe that they, in fact, can be a comprehensive solution that solves all the problems of the world on their stack.

And they may even innovate to a degree that on their stack, they are quite compelling.

But now imagine if we change from like months of development to days.