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By creating Next.js — now used by 4 million developers — and building Vercel into a $3.25 billion frontend cloud platform hosting TikTok, Notion, and The Washington Post, Rauch has quietly become the infrastructure behind how the modern web gets built.
Guillermo Rauch is the co-founder and CEO of Vercel, the frontend cloud platform powering websites for companies including TikTok, Notion, and The Washington Post.
He is also the creator of Next.js, the open-source React framework used by over 4 million developers. Founded in 2015, Vercel provides deployment, hosting, and edge infrastructure for modern web applications, has raised over $500 million, and was valued at $3.25 billion in 2024.
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