Guillermo Rauch, CEO @ Vercel, on Fostering Talent; Community Building; Best Hires; API-First Companies; ChatGPT; Customer Delight; Most Valuable Feedback; Improving The World; … | Full Interview
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A FFP interview with the CEO at Vercel, Guillermo Rauch.
Guillermo is a highly accomplished fixture in the web development community with over a decade of experience in the field. He is widely recognized for his expertise and contributions, particularly for creating the popular JavaScript library, Socket.io, which allows for real-time bi-directional communication between web clients and servers. He has also played a key role in the success of several startups as a co-founder.
Guillermo Rauch is currently the CEO of Vercel, a platform that simplifies the process of deploying and scaling web applications. Vercel has become a highly popular choice for developers, companies, and organizations to build and deploy their web projects.
Throughout his career, Guillermo Rauch has achieved many notable accomplishments, including co-founding LearnBoost and Cloudup. His expertise, leadership, and contributions are recognized as a leader in the industry. Guillermo is frequently invited as a speaker to many conferences and events, and has been featured in multiple publications and media outlets.
Hear Guillermo Rauch's perspective on:
- Unearthing Talent
- Space To Thrive
- Fostering Talent
- Community Building
- Best Hires
- Great Product People
- Product Ownership
- Well-Defined Ownership
- Field Insights
- Working with Large Companies
- Vercel CLI
- Spectrum Of Abstractions
- API-First Companies
- ChatGPT
- Promoting Quickly
- Celebration Culture
- Sharing Kudos
- Best Feedback
- North Star
- Saying No
- "Hell Yes!" Decisions
- Customer Delight
- And vs Or Products
- Dismissing React
- Simple vs Easy
- Engineering vs Shipping
- Protecting Crown Jewels
- Value System
- Software at Scale
- Enabling Features
- Psychological Safety
- Reverse Engineering
- Back Porting
- Typical CEO Day
- Infrastructure as Code
- Declarative Systems
- Driving Change
- Powerful Metaphors
- Balancing Focus
- Trusting Great Leaders
- Stellar Feedback
- Colleagues as Customers
- Finding Exceptional Leaders
- No or Hell Yeah!
- Important Heuristic
- Extremely Curious
- Scaling Yourself
- Guillermo's Motivation
- Owing The Web
- Customers as Partners
- Absorbing Insights
- Actionable Feedback Loops
- Winning Means…
- Metrics as Products
- Guillermo's Personal Evolution
- Biggest Lessons
- Improving The World
- Authenticity & Transparency
Links:
Guillermo Rauch on Twitter
Guillermo Rauch's blog
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