Guillermo Rauch
22 statements across 2 episodes · 9 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 6, 2023 by Guillermo Rauch · said 11 times in 9 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
- 20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
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2025 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- 20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- 20Sales: How the Best Sales Teams Use AI to Win Enterprise Deals | Sales Teams Will Be Dramatically Smaller | How to Ramps Sales Reps Way Faster | Why Unpaid Design Partners are BS | Why this Generation of Sales is Soft with Ishan Mukherjee @ Rox
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 3 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Guillermo Rauch, oldest first
Oct 6, 2023 bullish
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Oct 6, 2023 bullish
Rauch: Next-gen apps like Notion and Figma will look completely different
“So if I have to create the next notion, the next superhuman, the next figma, My bet is that it certainly is going to look completely different because before I would reach for what I would call like software one point no solutions.”
Oct 6, 2023
Rauch: Conceptual understanding helps leaders separate storytellers from real technical executors
“Like, I think being able to dive into like the absolute depth of the problem is, is something that everyone should be able to do. That doesn't mean that you have the complete texture But you have the ability to, I think really what you need is the conceptual u…”
Oct 6, 2023 positive
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Oct 6, 2023 neutral
Oct 6, 2023 bullish
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Rauch: Concrete past examples are essential to ship fast with high quality
“I think if you don't have those stories that you can actually give people, like, it almost sounds like, it sounds like, it sounds so contradictory, That you could move fast and ship with high quality, that if you cannot offer people those stories of like, this…”
Oct 6, 2023
Rauch: Minimize experiment blast radius to balance velocity and quality
“You can find the ways of reducing the blast radius of your experimentation such that when it's the time that you bring the product to everybody, you've accumulated enough evidence of success that you have an overwhelming amount of confidence in what you're bri…”
Oct 6, 2023
Rauch: Vercel evaluates talent and acquisitions by tangible public creations
“How I evaluate folks that want to join the company or companies that we acquire or folks that we reach out to is that what are they putting out into the world that is tangible? What can I use? What hyperlinks have you shared with the world about your creations…”
Oct 6, 2023 bearish
Oct 6, 2023 bullish
Rauch: AI wave will yield major IPOs like Web 2.0
“My prediction is just like what happened with web two by now, where you have, because of the platform shift toward mobile and social, you have countless successful IPOs from that generation. You have the Ubers, you have the Airbnbs, you have the Facebooks. We'…”
Oct 6, 2023 positive
Vercel is shifting products toward natural language, text-prompted interfaces
“With some of our products. We're basically going in that direction, right? Like what used to be dragging and dropping and like spending like hours or going into a text editor and like, Going through like all these auto completions and like errors, and now it's…”
Oct 6, 2023 positive
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Oct 6, 2023
Rauch: CEO role is setting quality standards, not inspecting every project
“I'm not the one that is like going after every single project and applying this rigorous testing. You know what I mean? I'm the one that is saying, this is the bar. These are some of the techniques. These are some of the stories.”
Oct 6, 2023 bullish
Oct 6, 2023 bearish
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Oct 6, 2023 negative
Rauch: Overweighting big-tech resume credentials was a past hiring mistake
“Sometimes I've placed more weight than I should have on this stellar linked list of awesome brands that you worked at. I did X at, let's just name random companies for the sake of it. Apple, Google, Amazon Netflix. And you look at that and you're like, well, f…”