Guillermo Rauch
Co-founder and CEO of Vercel and creator of the front-end development framework Next.js, with significant influence in developer tools and cloud infrastructure.
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Ship SF speakers include Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, typesafeai CEO Diogo Almeida, Anthropic engineering lead Katelyn Lesse, and Meta AI VP of Engineering Prashant Ratanchandani.
Vercel's Guillermo Rauch commented on /dev/null as "really well done."
Rauch believes the traditional no-code era is ending, that Vercel is a code company, that coding agents are driving the cost of code generation toward zero, and that enterprises can generate software tailored to their workflows on demand.
Rauch believes giants such as Salesforce and SAP will not disappear, because software needs data, and systems of record (customer history, contacts, meeting notes, tickets) remain crucial.
Rauch advises model companies to focus on a metric that cannot be gamed — retention — rather than on token volume manufactured through free credits or promotions.
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch breaks down Agent infrastructure into three layers: Vercel is where coding Agents deploy software, Vercel is where you build and deploy your own Agents, and Vercel itself is operated automatically by Agents.
The Vercel CEO revealed that on a given day, open models accounted for 78.4% of token usage on the Vercel AI Gateway, while closed-source models accounted for only 21.6%.
Vercel is a globally leading frontend cloud platform company founded by Next.js creator Guillermo Rauch.
Vercel was founded by Guillermo Rauch in 2015, originally named ZEIT, and is the core maintainer of the Next.js framework.
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Vercel was founded by Guillermo Rauch in 2015, originally named ZEIT, and is the core maintainer of the Next.js framework.
80%UnverifiedShip SF speakers include Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, typesafeai CEO Diogo Almeida, Anthropic engineering lead Katelyn Lesse, and Meta AI VP of Engineering Prashant Ratanchandani.
50%UnverifiedVercel's Guillermo Rauch commented on /dev/null as "really well done."
50%UnverifiedRauch believes the traditional no-code era is ending, that Vercel is a code company, that coding agents are driving the cost of code generation toward zero, and that enterprises can generate software tailored to their workflows on demand.
50%UnverifiedRauch believes giants such as Salesforce and SAP will not disappear, because software needs data, and systems of record (customer history, contacts, meeting notes, tickets) remain crucial.
50%UnverifiedRauch advises model companies to focus on a metric that cannot be gamed — retention — rather than on token volume manufactured through free credits or promotions.
50%UnverifiedVercel CEO Guillermo Rauch breaks down Agent infrastructure into three layers: Vercel is where coding Agents deploy software, Vercel is where you build and deploy your own Agents, and Vercel itself is operated automatically by Agents.
50%UnverifiedVercel is a globally leading frontend cloud platform company founded by Next.js creator Guillermo Rauch.
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