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  • Comment: While the company Vercel appears to be notable, that does not transfer to him being notable. For that you need articles about him, not the company. Ldm1954 (talk) 14:06, 1 October 2024 (UTC)


Guillermo Rauch
Born
Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation(s)Entrepreneur, Software Engineer
Known forAuthor of Next.js
Title
Websiterauchg.com

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]

Early life

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Guillermo was born in Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina.[7]

Career

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Guillermo founded his first company, Cloudup, in San Francisco. The company was acquired in 2013 by Automattic.[8]

Guillermo's involvement in open source projects including Socket.IO[9] and Mongoose inspired subsequent work on tooling and cloud infrastructure. After leaving Automattic, Guillermo created Next.js and co-founded Vercel in 2015.[10]

Guillermo attributes Vercel's rapid growth in part to its focus on AI,[11] and has raised awareness about the emergence of bots "extracting intelligence" from AI applications.[12]

In 2024, Vercel was valued at US$3.25 billion, and announced it had recently exceeded US$100 million in annual revenue.[13]

Books

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  • Smashing Node.js, by Guillermo Rauch. ISBN 978-1119963103

References

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  1. ^ Tyson, Matthew (2022-03-17). "Vercel CEO: Deployment should be instantaneous". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  2. ^ Wiggers, Kyle (2021-06-23). "Vercel secures $102M to accelerate Next.js adoption". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Robinson, Kristin (2024-05-21). "AI Music Firm Suno Raises $125M in Latest Funding Round". Billboard. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Pranay (2016-03-04). "Socket.IO and Realtime Applications with Guillermo Rauch". Software Engineering Daily. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  10. ^ "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.
  11. ^ MacManus, Richard (2023-08-31). "Vercel's Next Big Thing: AI SDK and Accelerator for Devs". The New Stack. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ "Exclusive: Vercel completes $250 mln Series E round at $3.25 bln valuation". Reuters. Retrieved June 14, 2024.