Li Jiarui

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Li Jiarui, founder and CEO of Juzi Interactive, Microsoft AI MVP, conversational marketing pioneer with 9 years of experience and author of Chatbot from 0 to 1. Co-founded conversational RPA framework Wechaty 8 years earlier, described as the world’s largest open-source conversational RPA framework. Founder and CEO of Juzi Interactive, Y Combinator alumnus, Microsoft AI MVP and Regional Director, co-author of Wechaty, host of Global Expansion Relativity, Forbes China’s globally influential Chinese top 100 honoree in 2023 and Outstanding Author in 2023. Other recognition includes Forbes 30 Under 30, Women in Technology Pioneer, Zhongguancun 30 Under 30, 36Kr’s 36 Under 36 S-tier entrepreneurs, Golden Knife’s top 10 women leaders, RCEP U35 technology leaders and the Science and Technology Innovation China youth entrepreneurship list in 2021. An AAMA Cradle entrepreneur and honorary tenured mentor for AWS. Published Chatbot from 0 to 1: A Practical Guide to Conversational Interaction Design and Chatbot from 0 to 1, edition 2: A Practical Guide to Conversational Interaction. Profile: founder and CEO of Beijing Juzi Interactive Technology, an innovator in conversational AI and commercial deployment. Leads integration of enterprise data and large models to build autonomous decision-making agents, aiming for a ten-thousand-fold productivity increase and AI-native organizations. Technical contributions: co-author of Wechaty, described as the largest open-source chatbot framework, with more than 10 thousand GitHub stars. Led its cross-platform framework, used by Microsoft and Baidu, and participated in OssChat as a cross-community communication solution for the Apache Foundation. Published China’s first conversational interaction book Chatbot from 0 to 1, proposed the chatbot lifecycle theory and produced the first Chinese ChatGPT from 0 to 1 public course. Commercial achievements: founded Juzi in 2019 and completed financing totaling nearly one hundred million yuan from Plug and Play, Y Combinator, TSVC, Alpha Startups, Zhencheng, MiraclePlus and others. Introduced large-model digital employees improving marketing efficiency more than 10-fold. Achieved 3-fold growth in 2023 and 2-fold growth in 2024, with a further 2-fold forecast this year, and profitability described as rare in the industry.