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Guillermo Rauch, Founder & CEO of Vercel, on Using Open-Source to Make The Web Faster

2022/4/21
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Guillermo Rauch：Vercel 的成功源于其对开源的承诺、对开发者体验的关注以及对产品主导型增长的实践。他强调了创建易于使用和自动化的产品，无需过多指导用户就能被采用，并为世界创造积极价值的重要性。他分享了在 LearnBoost 和 Cloudup 的经验，以及如何将这些经验应用于 Vercel 的发展。他详细阐述了 Next.js 的创建过程，以及 Vercel 平台如何与 Next.js 框架相结合，为开发者提供高效的部署和扩展能力。他还谈到了如何通过倾听用户反馈，了解其产品在不同行业和应用场景中的使用情况，并针对性地改进产品，从而实现产品主导型增长。此外，他还强调了与开发者社区建立联系的重要性，以及如何通过教育和创造价值来吸引和留住开发者。最后，他还分享了 Vercel 如何支持 Web3 的发展，以及如何为 Web3 开发者提供服务。 Oren Yunger 和 Glen Solman：作为访谈主持人，他们引导 Guillermo Rauch 分享了他个人的职业经历、创业经验以及 Vercel 的发展历程。他们提出了关于开源、产品主导型增长、开发者社区建设以及 Vercel 如何应对快速增长等方面的问题，并促使 Guillermo Rauch 对这些问题进行深入的探讨。

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Guillermo Rauch discusses his early fascination with web development, driven by the ability to fork software, edit it easily, and share his work with a global community of developers.
  • Rauch's early career was propelled by the ability to fork software and share his work globally.
  • He was captivated by JavaScript's unique capabilities on the front end of websites.
  • Rauch's early projects aimed to solve real-world problems and improve existing software.

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Guillermo Rauch is the Founder and CEO of Vercel, a cloud platform provider used to develop, preview, and ship frontend websites and applications using their Next.js open-source framework. Originally from Argentina, Guillermo taught himself JavaScript at just eleven years old and has developed multiple open-source libraries since then. He would go on to co-found LearnBoost and Cloudup, both of which were acquired by Automattic in 2013. Since the founding of Vercel in 2015, the company has already achieved Unicorn status, with GGV being a proud investor and having led a very successful $150M Series D round. Vercel now services more than 25,000 customers worldwide, including major companies like Uber and Facebook. In this episode, Guillermo talks about using open-source software to build communities and the importance of maintaining a developer-oriented approach. This episode is co-hosted by GGV Investor, Oren Yunger.