He sold his firm to Facebook and is now building voice tech for the world

Kumar Rangarajam's firm Slang Labs has pioneered the concept of voice assistant as a service (VAaaS), and aims to reduce thought to action latency among those coming online for the first time

In a house tucked away in JP Nagar, a posh residential area in south Bengaluru, Kumar Rangarajan is playing badminton. He has been regularly playing the sport and gymming at home during the pandemic for fitness. He has also converted a section of his house into an office where he runs Slang Labs, an in-app voice assistant company. While he is the a co-founder, his job title is ‘obsessive dictator’ of Slang Labs.

“I play badminton for one hour every day and don't think about work during that time,” says Rangarajan. “I have become healthier than I was before.”

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