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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:08:00 Ben Gilbert OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor Perplexity, Sierra, Replit, Vercel, hundreds of other AI startups, too.
- ▶ 1:36:22 Ben Gilbert Disney+, Duolingo, friends of the show over at Vercel and Anthropic, there's Cloudflare, GitHub, Atlassian, also a ton of indie developers who are shipping features at two in the morning.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:27:55 David Rosenthal Or if I literally just read off Sentry's website, Disney+, Cloudflare, GitHub, Anthropic, Vercel, Atlassian, all use Sentry.
- ▶ 2:06:05 Ben Gilbert OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Perplexity, Sierra, Replit, Vercel, and hundreds of other AI startups rely on WorkOS as their auth solution.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 59:28 Ben Gilbert They have an incredible customer list, including not only Anthropic, but Cursor, Vercel, Linear, and more.
- ▶ 1:29:04 David Rosenthal Companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Perplexity, Sierra, Replit, Vercel, hundreds of other AI startups all rely on WorkOS as their auth solution.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:24:49 Ben Gilbert But before we tell the, before the Android story, now is a great time to thank one of our favorite companies, Vercel.
- ▶ 2:24:57 David Rosenthal Yes, we have talked throughout the season about Vercel has become the infrastructure backbone for modern web and AI development.
- ▶ 2:25:12 David Rosenthal Today, though, we want to spotlight VZero, which is Vercel's AI app builder that goes one step further and programs, designs, iterates, and deploys full stack web applications entirely for you.
- ▶ 2:25:51 David Rosenthal Vercel loves to paraphrase the famous line from Pixar's Ratatouille that, quote, everybody can cook.
- ▶ 2:26:15 Ben Gilbert And speaking of production, every single vZero app you generate can be deployed to production instantly with Vercel, because vZero itself entirely runs on Vercel's platform.
- ▶ 2:26:34 David Rosenthal It's the perfect example of Vercel being customer zero for their own products.
- ▶ 2:26:38 David Rosenthal They're using their own AI cloud to power their own AI products.
- ▶ 2:26:41 Ben Gilbert So if you've got an idea that you want to launch, whether you're a seasoned developer or someone who's never written a line of code, go to Vercel.com slash acquired.
- ▶ 2:26:49 Ben Gilbert That's V-E-R-C-E-L dot com slash acquired and try it out.
- ▶ 2:26:54 Ben Gilbert Build something real, and just tell them that Ben and David sent you.
- ▶ 4:09:02 Ben Gilbert And Vercel, your complete platform for web development.
- ▶ 4:09:06 Ben Gilbert And VZero, that is Vercel.com slash acquired.
The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bank · Acquired
- ▶ 25:12 Ben Gilbert All right, listeners, now is a great time to thank one of our favorite companies, Vercel.
- ▶ 25:17 David Rosenthal Yes, Vercel is an awesome company.
- ▶ 25:20 David Rosenthal Over the past few years, they've become the infrastructure backbone that powers modern web development, and now the AI wave.
- ▶ 25:26 David Rosenthal If you visited a fast, responsive, modern website lately, or used a slick AI native app with agents and hyper-personalized interfaces, there's a good chance it was built and deployed on Vercel.
- ▶ 25:37 Ben Gilbert So for the past decade, they've been on a mission to democratize the lessons of the giants, companies like Google and Amazon and Meta.
- ▶ 25:53 David Rosenthal Vercel made it simple.
- ▶ 26:01 David Rosenthal That's the magic of their framework-defined infrastructure, which basically lets developers and large teams go from idea to production without any friction.
- ▶ 26:09 Ben Gilbert So as you may know, Vercel has been synonymous with front-end development.
- ▶ 26:13 Ben Gilbert But now they do backend and agentic workloads as well.
- ▶ 26:17 Ben Gilbert Vercel calls this the AI cloud, purpose-built for the next era of apps and already in production across companies like Under Armour, PayPal, Notion, and AI startups like Runway, Decagon, and BrowserBase.
- ▶ 26:17 Ben Gilbert Vercel calls this the AI cloud, purpose-built for the next era of apps and already in production across companies like Under Armour, PayPal, Notion, and AI startups like Runway, Decagon, and BrowserBase.
- ▶ 26:30 David Rosenthal The AI cloud takes removing deployment friction even one more step.
- ▶ 26:44 Ben Gilbert If you want to build the future of software, head to Vercel.com slash acquired.
- ▶ 26:48 Ben Gilbert That's V-E-R-C-E-L dot com slash acquired, and just tell them that Ben and David sent you.
- ▶ 1:04:24 Ben Gilbert First to our partners this season, JP Morgan, an incredible partner to us here at Acquired, Statsig, the best way to do experimentation and more as a product development team, Vercel, your complete platform for web development, and…
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:19:31 Ben Gilbert But before we tell that story, now is a great time to thank one of our favorite companies, Vercel.
- ▶ 2:19:37 David Rosenthal Vercel is such an awesome company.
- ▶ 2:19:40 David Rosenthal Over the past few years, they've become the infrastructure backbone that powers modern web development, and now the AI wave, too.
- ▶ 2:19:52 David Rosenthal Agents and hyper-personalized interfaces, there's a good chance it was built and deployed on Vercel.
- ▶ 2:19:58 Ben Gilbert Yeah, and the reason for that is that Vercel has completely reimagined the developer experience for the modern era.
- ▶ 2:20:09 Ben Gilbert Vercel eliminated that second component with what they call framework-defined infrastructure that transforms your code into live, globally distributed applications automatically.
- ▶ 2:20:19 David Rosenthal But now Vercel is enabling something even more incredible.
- ▶ 2:20:33 David Rosenthal Now companies like DoorDash and Notion are just shipping constantly on Vercel.
- ▶ 2:20:37 Ben Gilbert And Vercel is increasingly the platform to build full-stack AI apps.
- ▶ 2:20:41 Ben Gilbert Vercel has been synonymous with front-end development, but now they do back-end and agentic workloads as well.
- ▶ 2:20:48 David Rosenthal And Vercel is their own guinea pig with this stuff, too.
- ▶ 2:20:51 David Rosenthal Their own AI product, vZero, has two and a half million users,
- ▶ 2:20:59 David Rosenthal And vZero runs entirely on Vercel's platform.
- ▶ 2:21:02 David Rosenthal We did an ACQ-II episode with Vercel's CEO Guillermo back in February where we talked about all this.
- ▶ 2:21:09 Ben Gilbert So if you want to learn more about what Vercel can do for AI and web development at your company, join customers like Runway, Supreme, PayPal, Ramp, NerdWallet, Leonardo AI, Zapier, and Scale AI.
- ▶ 2:21:22 Ben Gilbert And head on over to Vercel.com slash acquired.
- ▶ 2:21:26 Ben Gilbert That's V-E-R-C-E-L dot com slash acquired, and just tell them that Ben and David sent you.
- ▶ 3:37:47 Ben Gilbert And Vercel, your complete platform for web development.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:38:59 Ben Gilbert Now is a great time to thank one of our longtime friends of the show, but actually first-time sponsor, Vercel.
- ▶ 1:39:05 David Rosenthal Yeah, Vercel is an awesome company.
- ▶ 1:39:08 David Rosenthal Over the past few years, they've become the infrastructure backbone that powers modern web development.
- ▶ 1:39:14 David Rosenthal If you've visited a fast, responsive website lately, there's a good chance it was built and deployed on Vercel.
- ▶ 1:39:20 Ben Gilbert Yeah, and the reason for this is Vercel has completely reimagined the entire web developer experience.
- ▶ 1:39:26 Ben Gilbert In the old world before Vercel, if you were a web developer, you basically had two completely different jobs you had to do.
- ▶ 1:39:47 David Rosenthal Vercel did away with this distinction entirely.
- ▶ 1:39:51 David Rosenthal They've built what they call the complete platform for the web, which is a framework defined infrastructure that transforms your code into live globally distributed production applications automatically.
- ▶ 1:40:10 Ben Gilbert Yeah, it's a pretty incredible technical infrastructure, which is no surprise because Vercel's founder, Guillermo Rauch,
- ▶ 1:40:35 David Rosenthal You can't listen to that and not walk away going, wow, this guy and this company are unbelievably compelling.
- ▶ 1:40:41 Ben Gilbert We'll be talking about Vercel all season, including their newest product that has just
- ▶ 1:40:54 David Rosenthal Go listen to the ACQ two episode and it'll become obvious why Guillermo and Vercel didn't stop at just, oh, let's eliminate deployment as a barrier to people building fast websites.
- ▶ 1:41:09 Ben Gilbert Well, if you want to learn more about what Vercel can do for web development at your company,
- ▶ 1:41:22 Ben Gilbert Head on over to Vercel.com slash acquired.
- ▶ 1:41:25 Ben Gilbert That is V-E-R-C-E-L dot com slash acquired.
- ▶ 2:58:08 Ben Gilbert Vercel, your complete platform for web development, and Anthropic,
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:46 Ben Gilbert The most recent one was a very fun interview we did with a friend of the show, Guillermo Rauch, the founder and CEO of Vercel.
- ▶ 4:53 Ben Gilbert About really the whole history of web development frameworks and their latest and greatest product, VZero, a startup within a startup that lets you code web apps from scratch in just English instead of a programming language.
- ▶ 4:59:52 Ben Gilbert So enjoy our conversation with Guillermo Rauch, the founder and CEO of Vercel, in the meantime.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 1:42:50 David Rosenthal OpenAI, Figma, Atlassian, Vercel, Notion, tons more.