SHARE UiPath Inc. is going public this coming week to become the next hot software company to stage an initial public offering. But it has had a long, strange trip to its IPO. How so? Well, the robotic process automation company, whose software mimics human interactions using software scripts or robots that execute human tasks in discrete steps, was started way back in 2005. But its culture is akin to a frenetic startup. The firm shunned conventions and, instead of focusing on a narrow geographic area to prove its product/market fit before it started to grow, it aggressively launched international operations well prior to reaching unicorn status.