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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Guillermo Rauch comes up on Latent Space, 20VC, TBPN, Acquired, In Depth
Jimmy Iovine on AI: “The Great Artists Will Show the World How to Use It”
- ▶ 0:23 Jordi Hays Senra, me,
Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
- ▶ 47:27 Harry Stebbings Guillermo from Vercel tweeted last night or yesterday about the weighting or usage of open models significantly increasing at a much faster rate to tokens used on closed models or frontier models.
The Opportunity for Global Founders
- ▶ 8:26 Gabriel Vasquez So a big part of this strategy was, uh, Guillermo Rauch from Bursell.
Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:26 unnamed speaker I think, uh, Guillermo Rauch from Bruxelles said they ran an internal benchmark on cyber, and K-III was, like, quite good.
Kimi K3 Reactions, The Odyssey Hits $264M in Debut, Netflix Embraces AI | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:34 Jordi Hays Uh, Guillermo over at Vercel says Kimmy tested it.
How AI Agents are Changing Investing · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 23:22 Joe Lonsdale Like our friends at Vercel, Guillermo was, I guess this is the power, like tens of millions of things.
AI vs. Dog Cancer, Timothée Chalamet Under Fire, ‘Agents Over Bubbles' | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:32 Jordi Hays There's always the next day of interviews, but you know, watching some of the clips back Guillermo from Vercel put together that hour long.
Why Your AI Agents Don’t Work with Dex Horthy of HumanLayer | In-Context Cooking
- ▶ 19:39 Dex Horthy We need to talk less about how much like code we produce, like how much code we produce and how much we actually like Guillermo Rauch talks about this.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:31:31 Ben Gilbert And I ran into none other than Vercel founder and CEO Guillermo Rauch.
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
- ▶ 21:48 Lenny Rachitsky And on the taste judgment side, you shared this concept to something Guillermo Rauch, uh, shared on, in our conversation, this idea of exposure time, exposure hours, being exposed to great stuff.
Executive Function: Build systems that can decide without you | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel)
- ▶ 15:45 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser You actually will not have cultural uniformity on a thing that might have said, say, been really important to Guillermo, and we did, in fact, need to codify.
- ▶ 18:41 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser A lot of founders, Guillermo's a good example, John and Patrick were examples of this well, are like excellent brand marketers, but that does not a predictable revenue engine make on its own. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:17 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser And then they'll do a one-on-one with G.
- ▶ 1:00:48 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser So Guillermo and I currently have a contest on who's going to be the top SDR at the company. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 28:25 Harry Stebbings When we see the shift in terms of users and where they come from, more and more, I think, you know, Guillermo from Vercel said it was one and a half six months ago, and now it's four and a half.
⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
- ▶ 4:04 Jared Palmer Guillermo, the CEO of Vercel, was like, why don't you build like a playground? 6 times in the scene
The Best Vibe Coding Tools in 2026
- ▶ 24:44 Greg Isenberg So, V-Zero, Guillermo.
⚡️ Ship AI recap: Agents, Workflows, and Python — w/ Vercel CTO Malte Ubl
- ▶ 11:13 Malte Ubl That's why Next.js is so good, because when, when Guillermo started building it, he knew exactly what to do.
- ▶ 17:01 Malte Ubl I think the, the thing that, that like coming down from Guillermo is just the absolute founding principle of a cell is that we never give you an abstraction that we haven't used ourselves.
The Agents Economy Backbone - with Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data & AI at Stripe
- ▶ 47:33 Emily Glassberg Sands Actually, Guillermo had a cool post a couple of days ago that, um, our Stripe integration is now one of their top, I think it's like,
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:15 Harry Stebbings Jason again highlighted this, announced pretty quickly after the post from Guillermo, the founder, which we're not getting into because we don't do politics, but the timing is interesting to bring up.
Jack Altman & Martin Casado on the Future of Venture Capital
- ▶ 30:51 Jack Altman You know, like I, um, I, I just posted one with, uh, Guillermo who, you know, and who obviously knows a lot too.
Meet the Hidden Agent Builder Turning Simple Prompts into Profit
- ▶ 10:28 unnamed speaker I was, uh, I was in a meeting kind of demoing a very early version of this to Guillermo from Vercel.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 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.
Naming expert shares process for creating billion-dollar brands: Vercel, Azure, Windsurf, Sonos
- ▶ 18:15 Lenny Rachitsky And I want to read, uh, a quote that Guillermo Rauch, uh, shared when I asked him about what it was like working with you. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:27 Lenny Rachitsky And Guillermo, he feels like a V, a V person.
How Browserbase Raised $67.5M to Power AI Agents & Vibe Coders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:11 Paul Klein Guillermo from Vercel.
- ▶ 6:56 Paul Klein Yeah, you know, I think Guillermo from Vercel has also been a very inspirational person for us, and we're lucky to have them both as a customer and an investor.
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- ▶ 52:05 Lenny Rachitsky And, uh, I had a guest on recently, Guillermo Rauch from Vercel, founder of Vercel.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:40:10 Ben Gilbert Yeah, it's a pretty incredible technical infrastructure, which is no surprise because Vercel's founder, Guillermo Rauch,
- ▶ 1:40:19 Ben Gilbert He started Next.js, which is one of the world's most popular open source frameworks used by folks like Walmart, The Verge, Nike, Hulu, Anthropics, Claude, the list goes on.
- ▶ 1:40:31 David Rosenthal We did an ACQ-II episode with Guillermo back in February.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 1:40:54 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.
Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- ▶ 56:51 Lenny Rachitsky There's a concept that I love that recently I learned from Guillermo at Vercel.
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
- ▶ 29:27 Harry Stebbings When we see the shift in terms of users and where they come from, more and more, I think, you know, Guillermo from Vercel said it was one and a half six months ago, and now it's four and a half.
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
- ▶ 12:44 Harry Stebbings We had, like, Guillermo Rauch from Vercel tweet the other day that actually they've seen conversions to their site trans for 1.6% to now 4.5%.
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
- ▶ 10:48 Harry Stebbings I've seen also Guillermo Rauch at Vassell's mentioned it's moved from like one to four percent of their kind of inbound.
Lulu Cheng Meservey on Founder Mode, Attention as Currency, and Building the Future.
- ▶ 6:55 Jordi Hays So we, we just had, uh, Guillermo on Vercel creates next JS.
Amjad Masad on Replit, AI Agents, and the Death of Traditional Software.
- ▶ 19:29 unnamed speaker We talked to Guillermo earlier this show.
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.
- ▶ 4:59:52 Ben Gilbert So enjoy our conversation with Guillermo Rauch, the founder and CEO of Vercel, in the meantime.
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 1:50:59 John Coogan Um, Guillermo Roche, uh, founder of Vercel, says people get massively distracted by the model of the day frenzy instead of solving real problems for customers and shipping high quality products.
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 2:40:23 John Coogan Uh, Guillermo Roche, uh, founder of Vercel says, uh, imagine trading an hour of doom scrolling a day for an hour of exercise a day.
Taylor Lorenz Trades Teams (ep16)
- ▶ 53:12 John Coogan Let's go to Guillermo Roche over at Vercel.
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 1:54:00 John Coogan And that's like the Nat Friedman website or like Gorin's website.
Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- ▶ 1:06:41 Ankur Goyal He actually worked with Guillermo on Mutools back in the day.
- ▶ 1:12:51 Ankur Goyal Guillermo from Vercel, who is also an investor and, you know, very sprightly character, um, to, you know, interact with. 3 times in the scene
Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Gonto, I have heard so many great things from your wonderful partner G, but thank you first for joining me today.
DevOps Tool Fig Raised $2.2m in 2020, Now Approaching 100k MAU's, Whats Next?
- ▶ 18:42 Brendan Falk I'm a big fan of Guillermo at Versailles.
20VC: Bedrock's Geoff Lewis on Whether VCs Actually Provide Value or Not, Why Bedrock Does Not Have An Ownership Focus and The Difference Between Principles and Rules When Building a Firm or Company
- ▶ 19:45 Geoff Lewis DeGerm, the founder, built it initially as Next.js as a programming language and like reverse engineered the company. 3 times in the scene
20VC: How Roam Research Analyse Product Design, Team-Building, The Future of Collaboration Tools & Applying Tesla Go-To-Market To Roam with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder & CEO @ Roam Research
- ▶ 20:25 unnamed speaker Guillermo from Zeit tweeted that he felt like us and Notion had a better claim for mapping the world's knowledge.
Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:21 unnamed speaker So Guillermo asks, what are some of the most important things you've, um, you've already learned about the problem space since starting the company?