Steal From The Best

Steal From The Best

Guillermo Rauch

Founder of Vercel

Ideas

Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch: “Velocity implies speed in a direction”

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch on AI finding code vulnerabilities

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch: “the bottleneck has shifted to reviewing that code”

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch explains what “agentic inquiry” means

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch on why fault attribution is hard

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch: “Writing code by hand is dead”

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch explains why agents need different interfaces

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch on the new engineering meta skill

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch on how building a landing page inspired Vercel

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch on how to build taste

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch explains why he pitched with less certainty

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch on why agents will become more proactive

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch explains how he says no to exciting ideas

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch explains how companies should enable their workforce with agents

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch: “This is the advantage of open source”

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch on finding product-market fit via hyperlinks

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch on building an agent before a website

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch explains why CSS is controversial

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch on what recursive founder mode means

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch on why the best product builders say nine nos for every yes

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch explains why prefetching makes Next.js pages snappy

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch on why agents need one interface

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch on why coding agents need secure data

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch: “I can show people a little prototype”

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch explains Next.js automatic routing

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Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch on design teams creating internal agents

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Intro

▶️A conversation with Vercel's Guillermo Rauch37:29 · 10 Dec 2025

▶️Keynote Interview: Vercel's Guillermo Rauch on the Agent Era09:48 · 28 Apr 2026

▶️Guillermo Rauch on Building Vercel With Purpose in an AI-First World25:19 · 12 Mar 2026

Deep

📄Vercel's Path to Product-Market Fit — From Open-Source Project to Billion-Dollar Business8 Feb 2024

🎧How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (Vercel's CEO)2 Nov 2023

🎧Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch: Building the Generative Web with AI (Sequoia Training Data)

🎧The Vercel Journey — with Guillermo Rauch (Refactoring FM)60 min · 16 May 2025

📄Guillermo Rauch's 5 Lessons for Founders Building in the AI Era (a16z speedrun)19 Mar 2026

✍️The AI Cloud17 Oct 2025

✍️7 Principles of Rich Web Applications4 Nov 2014

🎧Best of the Pod: Vercel's Guillermo Rauch on What Comes After Coding60 min · 11 Aug 2025

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