Today Adam is joined by Guillermo Rauch, founder and CEO of Vercel. They talk about building the platform that’s making the web faster and lets front-enders do their best work, his framework for leading as a CEO, what’s next for Next.js and Next.js Live, and how everything for Vercel is built on “Develop. Preview. Ship.”

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Featuring:

• Guillermo Rauch – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Vercel


• Making the Web. Faster.


• Next for Vercel


• We’ve re-branded as Vercel


• Next.js Live


• The Changelog #213: ZEIT, HyperTerm, now with Guillermo Rauch, founder of ZEIT


• The Changelog #426: What the web could be (in 2021 and beyond) with Guillermo Rauch & Amal Hussein


• Hack Club


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