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Guillermo Rauch.

Founder and CEO of Vercel.

Typefounder
CategoryDeveloper infra
Based inSan Francisco
By Anish· Founder · Vedwix
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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

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