Is that really the case? Their main R&D center is in Romania and it's huge.
If anything, it's probably the other way around since management is the top of the pyramid, which kind of by definition, is not a lot of people.
More details here: https://craft.co/uipath
On top of that, they have offices around the world, so it's very unlikely that all the other 2000 are only in the US.
Furthermore, as per above link, Employees (est.) (Jan 2021) 2,863. Romanian employees are not 800 as claimed in that article, and closer to 600. 20% of 2863 is 572.
Even 800 out of 2863 is 28%, and the actual number is less than 800. It seems we are much on the same page.
Which takes me to:
https://sec.report/Document/0001193125-21-094920/#rom98556_2
> As of January 31, 2021, we had a total of 2,863 full-time employees. Of our employees, 714 were engaged in research and development. 122 full-time employees were based at our headquarters in New York, New York, and 727 full-time employees were based in Bucharest, Romania
And that's from January. What are your sources? You're very confident for someone contradicting their IPO documents ;-)
Plus you're moving the goalposts. I proved that more than 20% are in Romania alone (your own math says 28%), UIPath has other European offices. So it's entirely possible that around 50% of UIPath employees are in Europe. I'm too lazy to check.
My point is that UIPath was started in Europe and has a strong presence in Europe. The main development center is in Europe. The top management is European. It can't be considered a purely American startup.
But for how long?
The Romanian R&D center is obviously competitive, otherwise we wouldn't have so many offices from purely American companies in Romania.
So the direct answer is: for long enough, I hope :-)
European startups that are remotely successful literally have to move to NYC(or any other US city i guess, but NYC is the preferred choice, though it may be expensive) to not die off.It's not even a joke, and it's the sad reality of living in the grandious European Union that suffocates you with bureaucracy.There have been places that became lax towards tech startups (see cz for example), but even with laws being slowly changed/ignored, the money either isn't there compared to US, and even if there is (see france, uk especially post brexit), the investing entities lean on the fact that there's more talent/square meter, so they're not really that quick to pull the trigger if they can save on some bucks.