Vercel
22 statements across 4 episodes · 12 bullish · 6 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Nov 8, 2024 by Sam Lessin · across every show →
Everything said about Vercel, oldest first
Nov 8, 2024 bearish
Nov 8, 2024
Nov 8, 2024
Rauch: Vercel Hosted Polymarket and Washington Post During 2024 Election
“In fact, in terms of the election, we hosted the election microsites for Washington post. We hosted polymarket.com, which was extremely hot this election, like quite literally hot in terms of like, How many servers, how much infrastructure it took to help them…”
Nov 8, 2024 negative
Nov 8, 2024 neutral
Nov 8, 2024
Rauch: Vercel mitigated a 150,000-IP botnet attack on prediction markets
“The largest attack that we saw, which we estimate was actually probably targeting some of our customers in the sort of like prediction market space for reasons that I can't fully share, but the attack was pretty sizable, a 150,000 APs, a globally distributed b…”
Nov 8, 2024 negative
Nov 8, 2024 negative
Rauch: AWS and Azure require weeks and experts for basic setup
“If you use the, like, foundational cloud infrastructure today, like AWS or Azure, it's really, really difficult to turn your idea into reality. It'll take you on team of experts, and it'll take you weeks just to set up the foundations.”
Dec 27, 2024 bearish
Lessin: Vercel will struggle to monetize commoditized AI software creation
“If the marginal cost of building, it goes towards zero. And like, that's the general trend of history. My big concern for your company will be, you're not going to get paid enough for it. Right. Cause like it'll be commodity.”
Jan 16, 2026 bullish
Dave Morin: In six months, developers will deploy to Vercel in minutes
“It was very hard for him to understand GitHub and there's all these like, Intricate things that are very nerdy about how to interact with these tools, but they're not that complicated and will just get eliminated from the process. And so, you know, it's gotta …”
Apr 10, 2026 bullish
Apr 10, 2026 negative
Apr 10, 2026 positive
Rauch: Vercel hired a 17-year-old whose offer was signed by his mother
“Today, we gave an offer or we finalized an the offer got signed by a mother. Why? Because we hire someone that's 17 years old, that we went through the trouble of, like, doing it lawfully, obviously, and having his parents approve, because this person is so ov…”
Apr 10, 2026 positive
Rauch: Vercel routes customer data queries through an internal AI agent
“In the past, Questions about customers would happen through, maybe there is a Salesforce account open, and the data team, the data integration, and if it's a very complex question, I have to ask a data analyst. All of that is going through an agent now.”
Apr 10, 2026 positive
Apr 10, 2026 bullish
Apr 10, 2026 positive
Apr 10, 2026 bullish
Apr 10, 2026 bullish
Rauch: Generating software will win over searching for and procuring software
“Generating software, it was in competition now with Googling for software, but now generating software is not just in competition, it's going to win. It means that everyone can produce their own software for personal use or for enterprise use, because why woul…”
Apr 10, 2026 positive
Rauch: Data analyst agents must push back and correct company terminology
“One of the things about a data analyst agent is that it should correct you in your terminology. If a Brit comes into Vercel and says, tell me how many weekly active users we have. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. At Vercel, we have weekly active developers …”
Apr 10, 2026 positive
Rauch: Vercel candidates must explain how they would automate their own roles
“And so basically everyone at Vercel is now kind of like the steward of the agent, and that's their new job expectation. And now it's become part of our job screening, which actually forces the hiring manager to think about, I'm hiring a roboticist. I'm not hir…”