Guillermo Rauch
17 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 2, 2023 by Guillermo Rauch · said 9 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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Nov 2, 2023
Nov 2, 2023 neutral
Front-end code is becoming less interesting than visual presentation and performance
“Code, in many ways, is becoming less interesting, right? Because It either looks good or it doesn't look good. It loads fast or it doesn't load fast. It's accessible or it's not accessible. So, so much of the front end cloud has been actually about the interac…”
Nov 2, 2023 bearish
Nov 2, 2023 neutral
Nov 2, 2023 positive
Nov 2, 2023 negative
Developer experience at all costs is counterproductive for businesses and developers
“The framework that I use today is developer experience at all costs doesn't work. It it's bad for the vendor startup enterprise. It's bad for the developer because the end date is like the good old adage of the customer is king. We all get paid. You, me, like …”
Nov 2, 2023 positive
Open source is the optimal model over proprietary infrastructure software
“Which is why I think open source is in my opinion, the global maximum, because if there's a company supporting it, I can automate a lot of my undifferentiated work away. If I'm a company and for whatever reason, if I need to do it on prem, I also have that opt…”
Nov 2, 2023
Redfin and Trulia independently built Next.js lookalikes before its launch
“So I remember right, right after we released it, someone from Redfin reached out and they were saying, we're building the same thing. And then a week later, someone from Trulia reached out, oh, we're building the same thing.”
Nov 2, 2023
Facebook tried to hire Rauch as a teenager in Argentina
“At one point, Facebook in the early days reached out to me because they wanted to hire me. I was still a teenager in Argentina because they were like, Hey, we're investing really heavily in this. We like what Mootools did, that project that I was contributing …”
Nov 2, 2023 bullish
Successful new infrastructure startups are building higher up the software stack
“So it's really hard, I think, to make a dent into this ecosystem by saying, all I have is this low-level data service. That's why you're seeing that the new companies that are being successful in this phase are actually going higher up the stack.”
Nov 2, 2023 neutral
Nov 2, 2023 positive
A 2014 essay on rich web applications became the blueprint for Next.js
“In 2014, I had written this article and I highly recommend this to prospective founders. I wrote this essay called The Seven Principles of Rich Web Applications. It's the first essay on my blog. I think this was right, right after I had sold the company. And t…”
Nov 2, 2023 positive
Pure developer experience frameworks failed because user performance never solved itself
“There was a lot of optimism that certain things that were really good developer experiences, For whatever magical reason, let's call it Moore's law or just hopium. They were like, okay, the user part will figure itself out. You know, fast forward a few years, …”
Nov 2, 2023 positive
Software engineering focus will dramatically shift toward product design and UI
“I think a lot of the focus shifts to creativity. Really? The thing that we've been trying to do with the front-end cloud, it accelerates, which is work on your product, work on the user interface, work on the thing that touches another human being and gives th…”
Nov 2, 2023
Feb 5, 2026 negative
Feb 5, 2026 neutral
Grosser: Vercel CEO and COO compete in outbound SDR cold-prospecting
“So Guillermo and I currently have a contest on who's going to be the top SDR at the company. So, you know, he's beating me actually on, like, the founder outreach to startups. I'm probably winning an enterprise CXO outreach. But, you know, I, I'm personally do…”