Vercel's v0 took nine months to reach $1M ARR
Jared Palmer · ⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents · Nov 10, 2025 · at 9:05
Jared Palmer, former VP of AI at Vercel and SVP at GitHub, explains the early monetization and growth timeline of v0.
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“That launches, and then probably like nine months later it took us like nine months to get to like a million ARR. This little team, but then the models progressed.”
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