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How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO) Nov 2, 2023 · 1 mention · from 8:32
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Nov 2, 2023 negative

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Automattic spent millions hosting WordPress.com while new apps remained tedious

“At WordPress they had invested Millions and millions and millions of dollars in becoming proficient at hosting one application, WordPress.com. But any incremental new app, new product, new feature was very, very tedious.”

Guillermo Rauch Nov 2, 2023 ▶ 13:48 How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)

Nov 2, 2023

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Rauch sold Cloudup to Automattic before its public launch

“We ended up selling the company before even we opened it up to the public.”

Guillermo Rauch Nov 2, 2023 ▶ 10:31 How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)

Nov 2, 2023 positive

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Cloudup's real-time tech became the foundation for WordPress 5's block editor

“They were really interested in the real time technologies for collaboration so that you could go to WordPress and like edit posts, what later became the foundation of their block based editor for WordPress five.”

Guillermo Rauch Nov 2, 2023 ▶ 10:19 How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)

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