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Rauch: The total addressable market for v0 is everyone with a computer

Guillermo Rauch · Guillermo Rauch: Why Software Development Will Never Be the Same · Jun 26, 2025 · at 12:43

Guillermo Rauch is the CEO of Vercel. He is contrasting traditional developer tools (IDEs) with AI app-generation platforms like Vercel's v0.

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“When I think about the coding IDEs, You still have to be a coder, meaning you know how to download an ID, you have to, you know how to set up, you know, the dev server, the tooling, the SDKs, the libraries, whereas a product like vZero, the TAM is everyone with a computer, and they can just open a website as opposed to having to download something.”

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