Draft:Guillermo Rauch

Guillermo Rauch (born December 10, 1990) is an Argentina-born. American software engineer and entrepreneur. He is known for creating Next.js and as the co-founder of Vercel. Guillermo is a notable technology investor in companies like Scale AI, Perplexity , Honeycomb , and Suno.

Career
Guillermo was born in Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina. In his teens, he began teaching people how to use Linux and later developed a passion for JavaScript and web development.

After joining the MooTools core team, Guillermo got his first full-time job as a frontend engineer at 18 years old and relocated to San Francisco, CA

Guillermo founded his first company Cloudup in SF which was acquired in 2013 by Automattic, the company behind WordPress, to power their editing and site building technology.

Guillermo's involvement in open source projects including Socket.IO and Mongoose inspired subsequent work on tooling and cloud infrastructure, with a focus on developer experience. After leaving Automattic, Guillermo created Next.js and co-founded Vercel in 2015.

Guillermo attributes Vercel's rapid growth in part to its focus on AI, and has raised awareness about the emergence of bots "extracting intelligence" from AI applications.

In 2024, Vercel was valued at US$3.25 billion, and announced it had recently exceeded US$100 million in annual revenue.

Books

 * Smashing Node.js, by Guillermo Rauch. ISBN 978-1119963103