Rasa: The journey of coincidences | Alex Weidauer
The journey of Rasa NLU, Rasa Core to Series B funding from Andreessen Horowitz(a16z), Community building
In this podcast, we spoke with Alex Weidauer, Co-founder and CEO of Rasa. Rasa is a Python-based open-source conversational AI framework powered by Rasa NLU and Rasa Core. We learned the backstory of Rasa, which was thought up in Alex’s kitchen while building a chatbot using Dialogflow and other chatbot frameworks — till today with 3M+ downloads, 10K+ members on the global Rasa community forum.
We also touched upon the story behind naming Rasa, latest GPT-3 NLP research, talent acquisition, product-market fit for startup products, recent Series B funding from Andreessen Horowitz(a16z), Rasa Masterclass on YouTube, and even Alex’s favorite Bollywood movie and actor!
Theme Introduction: In this podcast series, we will have a light and casual chat with Founders, Tech Leads, Hiring Managers/HRs, Data Scientist, Researchers, Community Builders about how they use AI to solve real business problems. This podcast will bring you closer to…
