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Guillermo Rauch | |
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| Born | Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, Software Engineer |
| Known for | Author of Next.js |
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| Website | rauchg |
Guillermo Rauch (born December 10, 1990) is an Argentina-born.[1] American software engineer and entrepreneur. He is known for creating Next.js[2] and as the co-founder of Vercel. Guillermo is a notable technology investor in companies like Scale AI[3], Perplexity[4], Honeycomb[5], and Suno[6].
Career[edit]
Guillermo was born in Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina[7]. In his teens, he began teaching people how to use Linux and later developed a passion for JavaScript and web development.
After joining the MooTools core team[8], Guillermo got his first full-time job as a frontend engineer at 18 years old and relocated to San Francisco, CA[9]
Guillermo founded his first company Cloudup in SF which was acquired in 2013[10] by Automattic, the company behind WordPress, to power their editing and site building technology.
Guillermo's involvement in open source projects including Socket.IO[11] and Mongoose inspired subsequent work on tooling and cloud infrastructure, with a focus on developer experience. After leaving Automattic, Guillermo created Next.js and co-founded Vercel in 2015.[12]
Guillermo attributes Vercel's rapid growth in part to its focus on AI[13], and has raised awareness about the emergence of bots "extracting intelligence" from AI applications.[14]
In 2024, Vercel was valued at US$3.25 billion, and announced it had recently exceeded US$100 million in annual revenue.[15]
Books[edit]
- Smashing Node.js, by Guillermo Rauch. ISBN 978-1119963103
References[edit]
- ^ Tyson, Matthew (2022-03-17). "Vercel CEO: Deployment should be instantaneous". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ Wiggers, Kyle (2021-06-23). "Vercel secures $102M to accelerate Next.js adoption". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ Scale (2018-08-07). "Scale Announces $18 Million in Series B Funding Led by Index Ventures, with Accel and YC Joining the Round". GlobeNewswire News Room (Press release). Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ Sharma, Shubham (2024-01-04). "Perplexity AI raises $74M to take on Google and Microsoft Bing with AI-native search". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ Honeycomb. "Observability Market Creator Honeycomb Nabs $50M in Rare Series D Funding as Economy Fuels Its Growth". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ Robinson, Kristin (2024-05-21). "AI Music Firm Suno Raises $125M in Latest Funding Round". Billboard. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ "Guillermo Rauch, el argentino que no termino el colegio pero fundo un unicornio: que hace". www.cronista.com (in Spanish). 2021-07-19. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ "MooTools Developers". mootools.net. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ "Vercel's Path to Product-Market Fit — From Open-Source Project to Billion-Dollar Business". First Round Review. 2024-02-08. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ Brooke, Eliza (2013-09-25). "Automattic Acquires File-Sharing Service Cloudup To Build A Faster Media Library And Enable Co-Editing". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ Pranay (2016-03-04). "Socket.IO and Realtime Applications with Guillermo Rauch". Software Engineering Daily. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ "How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (Vercel's CEO)". First Round Review. 2023-11-02. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ MacManus, Richard (2023-08-31). "Vercel's Next Big Thing: AI SDK and Accelerator for Devs". The New Stack. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ Barr, Alistair. "AI models from OpenAI and other tech giants are being bombarded by a new swarm of bots 'extracting intelligence'". Business Insider. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ "Exclusive: Vercel completes $250 mln Series E round at $3.25 bln valuation". Reuters. Retrieved June 14, 2024.
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