Making the Web. Faster. (Founders Talk #83)

Today Adam is joined by Guillermo Rauch, founder and CEO of Vercel. They talk about building the platform that’s making the web faster and lets front-enders do their best work, his framework for leading as a CEO, what’s next for Next.js and Next.js Live, and how everything for Vercel is built on “Develop. Preview. Ship.”

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Featuring:

• Guillermo Rauch – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Vercel
• Making the Web. Faster.
• Next for Vercel
• We’ve re-branded as Vercel
• Next.js Live
• The Changelog #213: ZEIT, HyperTerm, now with Guillermo Rauch, founder of ZEIT
• The Changelog #426: What the web could be (in 2021 and beyond) with Guillermo Rauch & Amal Hussein
• Hack Club
• Lex Fridman Podcast: Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin

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