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Guillermo Rauch

ROLE FOUNDER AND CEOAT VERCELMENTIONS 5LAST SEEN AUGUST 29, 2026
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Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel, a cloud infrastructure and developer platform company headquartered in San Francisco. He is best known as the creator of several influential open source projects, including Socket.IO, Mongoose, and the Next.js React framework, which he co-authored. Originally from Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Rauch began his career as a frontend engineer and previously founded Cloudup, which was acquired by Automattic. He is also the author of the book "Smashing Node.js" and created the Hyper terminal emulator.

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mention·20VC·AUGUST 29, 2026

Guillermo from Vercel tweeted last night or yesterday about the weighting or usage of open models significantly increasing at a much faster rate to tokens used on closed models.

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product·The VC Corner·AUGUST 23, 2026

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch argues that abundant AI intelligence makes the internal software factory more important, leading Vercel to consolidate hundreds of agents into one company-wide agent called V.

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mention·The VC Corner·AUGUST 23, 2026

He also sees distribution shifting from product-led growth toward agent-led growth, with agents increasingly discovering and buying software for their users.

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mention·The a16z Show·AUGUST 20, 2026

A big part of this strategy was Guillermo Rauch from Vercel. It's a persona that obviously has succeeded and has done really well in Silicon Valley. But he was very excited to meet people from Latin America and help them out in that journey.

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mention·Newcomer Newsletter·JULY 17, 2026

Vercel is another name that came up while gossiping with investors, with founder Guillermo Rauch signaling publicly that he'd be interested.

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