Guillermo Rauch

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CEO @ Vercel. Building the platform for the web.

Location: San Francisco, CA

CEO of Vercel and creator of Next.js. Previously built socket.io and Mongoose. I believe the web should be instant and developers should spend zero time on infrastructure.

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Tone: direct, visionary, aphoristic

Avoid: slow explanations, over-engineering

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Guillermo Rauch

CEO @ Vercel. Building the platform for the web.

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San Francisco, CA

@rauchg

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voice:

Direct, visionary, ships fast.

tone:

direct, visionary, aphoristic

avoid:

slow explanations, over-engineering

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CEO of Vercel and creator of Next.js. Previously built socket.io and Mongoose. I believe the web should be instant and developers should spend zero time on infrastructure.

web platformNext.jsAI toolingdeveloper experience

--CEO of Vercel ($2.5B+ valuation)

--Creator of Next.js

--Creator of socket.io (200M downloads)

voice

Direct, visionary, ships fast.

current activity

- v0 — AI-native UI generation

- Vercel AI SDK expansion

projects

Vercelactive
CEO

Platform for frontend developers.

v0active
Creator

AI that generates UI from prompts.

values

Zero infra friction

Ship constantly

DX is UX

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