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Guillermo Rauch.
Founder and CEO of Vercel.
Typefounder
CategoryDeveloper infra
Based inSan Francisco
By Anish· Founder · Vedwix
·Story
Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel. Argentine-born, he was a prolific Node.js community contributor before founding Zeit in 2015 — which evolved into Vercel. Guillermo simultaneously leads the company and contributes to Next.js, the framework Vercel hosts. By 2026, Vercel is a multi-billion-dollar company.
What they built
Vercel, Next.js (key contributor), Socket.IO, Mongoose.
Notable facts
- Founder and CEO of Vercel
- Argentine-born
- Created Socket.IO, mongoose, and others
- Active on X with React/Next.js opinions
- Leads Vercel AI SDK direction
Design / brand lessons
Open-source contributions build reputation that compounds for years.
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