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Guillermo Rauch

CEO & Founder, Vercel

Search every verified Guillermo Rauch interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Guillermo Rauch, founder and CEO of Vercel, has been active in numerous industry events and interviews over the past two months, discussing the impact of AI on software development and his company's direction. At the Vercel Ship 2026 conference in San Francisco, Rauch presented the company's focus on what he termed "agentic infrastructure" and said that Vercel users can now deploy an "end-to-end software factory" in under three minutes. He reported that AI coding agents account for 60% of all deployments on Vercel, an increase from 3% at the start of 2026, and that the platform surpassed a billion cumulative deployments in about ten years, followed by another 1.5 billion deployments in the subsequent ten months. In separate interviews, he described a shift in engineering work toward building and orchestrating "software factories" and "fleets of agents," emphasizing human creative control and the importance of integrating production data into development loops. He also discussed advising engineers to focus on systems understanding and higher-level orchestration rather than on individual code details. Rauch has also spoken about broader industry implications in appearances such as a Dreamforce fireside chat and podcast interviews. He argued that AI will eventually generate most frontend code, that custom software will become more accessible and more tailored to individual businesses, and that the next decade will be defined by what he calls "fluid compute" — computing resources that can expand and contract in response to demand. He stated that he believes AI will "solve all of humanity's problems" over time, while also acknowledging challenges, such as the increased "security debt" and attack surface created by widespread AI-generated code, and suggesting that moving more of the development lifecycle into sandboxes could reduce supply chain attacks. He described his personal workflow as one that uses AI assistants and agents extensively, including a "design harness" for vetting his public communications, and he emphasized that while humans must remain in control, the discipline of continuous shipping and "setting the pace" remains central to his approach.

Recent appearances

  • Guillermo Rauch: One Stroke Dragon › First of Kind

    October 22, 2026 · 📺 First of Kind

    What can a dragon painted in a single stroke teach us about software? Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel. Growing up in Argentina, he taught himself English in order to teach himself programming, then went on to create Socket.io and other foundational technology for the real-time web. Along the way, he developed a cunning designer’s eye that became the competitive advantage for what is now a multi-billion dollar venture. In this conversation with Soleio, Guillermo explains why he designed Vercel’s first command line in Sketch before writing any code, why layout shift erodes tru…

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  • Guille Rauch: “Artificial intelligence is going to solve all of humanity’s problems”

    October 19, 2026 · 📺 SLA TV

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  • 60% of Vercel Deployments Are Now Shipped by AI Agents

    October 16, 2026 · 📺 Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

    Guillermo Rauch, Founder and CEO of Vercel, joins Sourcery from the company's San Francisco headquarters to discuss how AI agents are transforming software development, infrastructure, and the economics of SaaS. Vercel has reportedly reached $600M in annualized revenue, growing 148% YoY, with more than 485,000 paying teams and a $9.3B valuation. Its infrastructure powers applications for OpenAI, Meta, Stripe, Shopify, DoorDash, and more. AI agents now account for 60% of Vercel deployments, up from just 3% at the beginning of 2026. Guillermo explains why coding is becoming dramatically cheape…

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  • Vercel Ship 2026

    October 15, 2026 · 📺 Vercel

    Join us for Ship SF, live from the Palace of Fine Arts. After London, Berlin, New York, and Sydney, we're bringing the 2026 tour home. Hear the latest from Vercel, what we're building for agents in production, and stories from the teams shipping on the platform every day. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 1:04 Keynote: Agentic Infrastructure – Guillermo Rauch 9:09 Keynote: Backends, Python, Daemons – Malte Ubl 16:17 Keynote: The Agent Stack – Tom Occhino 25:29 Keynote: Vercel for Enterprise – Jeanne Grosser 37:34 Keynote: Wrap-up – Guillermo Rauch 40:30 Break 57:24 Ora: Can an Agent Use Your Website? 1:…

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  • AI Will Build Most Frontend Code | Guillermo Rauch

    October 15, 2026 · 📺 MTS

    Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, discusses the evolution of frontend development, AI-driven web architectures, deployment platforms, and the future of web infrastructure. Check out our sponsor Lovable: ⁠https://lovable.dev.⁠ Turn ideas into software people love. -- ⁠https://x.com/rauchg⁠ -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X |⁠ ⁠⁠⁠  / mtslive⁠⁠   YouTube |⁠ ⁠⁠⁠   / @mtsituation   Spotify |⁠ ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV... Apple |⁠ ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Substack |⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://mtsl…

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  • Vercel CEO reveals his Agentic Engineering Workflow

    October 02, 2026 · 📺 David Ondrej

    Try Supabase for Free: https://supabase.com/ Supabase Select: https://select.supabase.com/ Cloudroom: https://cloudroom.dev/ Vercel: http://vercel.com/ Guillermo's twitter: https://x.com/rauchg fx harness: https://fx.sh/ Follow me on Instagram -   / davidondrej1   Follow me on Twitter - https://x.com/DavidOndrej1 Watch my podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033E1UL... Subscribe if you're serious about AI. In this video, David Ondrej interviews Guillermo Rauch, Vercel CEO and legendary Next.js developer. They talk about Cloud Agents, Agentic Engineering, how AI will impac…

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  • AI Era Playbook for Developers (Guillermo Rauch in Klemen Selakovič) — RE:moat podkast 42

    October 01, 2026 · 📺 Klemen Selakovic – AIDEA podkast

    Klikni gumb NAROČI SE in nato še ikono 🔔zvončka. Tako boš obveščen/a o novih epizodah, ki izhajajo 1x na teden. 🙂 ========================================­===== 💻🚀Epizoda je bila posneta v sklopu dogodka AI Developer Summit — Astra AI × Vercel https://aisummit.astra-ai.co/ Gost epizode je CEO podjetja Vercel - Guillermo Rauch. ‪@rauchg‬ ========================================­===== "Economic MOAT" — a business's ability to maintain a competitive edge over its competitors. ========================================­===== Prijavi se na newsletter in vsak petek prejmi 5 linkov, ki jih ust…

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  • Moving Fast Without Breaking Trust | Dreamforce 2026

    September 19, 2026 · 📺 Salesforce

    Speed got you here. Accountability keeps you here. Parker Harris and Guillermo Rauch discuss building AI that scales when the stakes are high and why getting it right can change everything. Learn more about Agentforce: https://www.salesforce.com/agentforce/ Check out our guide on artificial intelligence (AI): https://www.salesforce.com/artificial... Timestamps: 0:00 Quality and AI development 2:22 Engineering speed and scale 6:00 Deterministic AI design 9:50 Managing AI compute resources 12:53 Human and agent collaboration 16:02 The evolving engineer's role 21:23 Security and AI governance 2…

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  • Inside Vercel's AI-era playbook: "Recursive Founder Mode" | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)

    August 25, 2026 · 📺 Knuckle Up with Nakul

    Guillermo Rauch's kindergarten teachers had a question for his parents: "What do you guys give this kid? He's a freaking ball of energy." Today Guillermo is at the gym every morning, has five kids with a sixth on the way, does Vercel's customer support rotations himself, and measures his own keystrokes with an app he vibe coded. He is also the founder and CEO of one of the defining infrastructure companies of the AI era. If you have built anything on the internet, you have probably touched his work. Guillermo created Socket.IO, co-created Next.js, the most popular React framework in the world…

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  • Fireside Chat with Guillermo Rauch | Supabase Select 2025

    August 13, 2026 · 📺 Supabase

    Guillermo Rauch is the co-founder and CEO of Vercel (https://vercel.com). He spoke with Supabase co-founder and CEO Paul Copplestone at Supabase Select 2025. 👇 Learn more about Supabase 👇 🕸 Website: https://supabase.com/ 🏁 Get started: https://app.supabase.com/ 📄 Docs: https://supabase.com/docs 🔔 Subscribe for more tutorials and feature updates from Supabase:    / @supabase   📱 Connect with Us: 🐙 Github: https://www.github.com/supabase 💬 Discord: https://discord.supabase.com/ 🐦 Twitter:   / supabase   ▶ Instagram (follow for memes):   / supabasecom   ABOUT SUPABASE: Supabase is the ope…

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  • The AI Agent Every Company is About to Build | Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch

    August 06, 2026 · 📺 Riley Brown

    How do you build an agent that a 1000 person company can use internally? That's what i discuss today with @rauchg. As well as: How to get started building agents? Do we build a team of agents or one GOD agent? OpenClaw, and the movement it started. Hard parts of creating agents Agents that delegate to other agents with different permissions and computer access This is @agentnative_ #4 00:00 Intro 01:21 The State of Agent Adoption 07:26 "V" Vercel's Internal Company Agent 10:18 Building V and the Eve Framework 14:32 Lessons from OpenClaw: Soul MD + CPU use 22:20 One God Agent OR a Te…

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  • Fireside Chat with Tobias Lütke and Guillermo Rauch | DotDev 2026

    July 28, 2026 · 📺 ShopifyDevs

    Fireside Chat with Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. Connect with us on Twitter » www.twitter.com/shopifydevs Launch your own online store by visiting Shopify and starting your free trial » http://bit.ly/VisitShopify

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“Why did I say free? Obviously I can't tell you the specific timeline, but it's like artificial intelligence is intrinsically open source. What does that mean? If I have a very good artificial intelligence, it will allow you to generate itself because it will be so intelligent that it will say, well, how if even you can experiment with this today? You can tell your agent, hey, help me train a model. And maybe it won't”

“The lethal combination there is that you buy or sell as a platform and then you never have to buy software again because you can just generate it to your needs. Okay. So where do the sales forces and SAPs etc the world fit in? Well software needs data. I can generate the most beautiful like meeting prep or report or all of these awesome things that you can deploy on Vercel websites, applications, agents, but they nee”

“We started out the year with 3% of deployments on Vercel coming from coding agents. Now 60% are agentic. So more and more and more of the software of the world is just robots telling other robots what to do, right? Or you can think of it as like robots that take in English are getting out code for other robots to run. And of that 60% it's hard to say but I will tell you there's a really cool thing happening right now”

“One of my biggest challenges today in adopting new software both personally and as Vercel is understanding the security debt that I'm taking on. Just the surface of attack has become so massive as of recently. We probably need to start writing code in different programming languages. The challenge that I think a lot of organizations have today is that the amount of latent vulnerabilities of all of this human written ”

“As a spokesperson for a lot of engineers in the world, the question that I get very frequently is, as an engineer, am I going to have a job in 5 years, in 10 years, in 15 years? Creating high-quality software is extremely tedious and expensive. I actually give Slack as a great example of something that on the surface seems like you should be able to easily generate something like Slack, because you look at it and say”

“My point on balancing open source in business is actually a very capitalist one. If you think about capitalism and why it's so great, it's because we're all incentivized to continue to grow the pie. We don't think of the economy as a fixed pie. wouldn't think about it as zero game.”

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