Guillermo Rauch.

Guillermo Rauch is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vercel, the frontend cloud platform that powers websites and applications for companies including TikTok, Notion, The Washington Post, and tens of thousands of others.

Rauch founded Vercel in 2015 and is also the creator of Next.js, the open-source React framework that has become the most popular way to build production web applications. Next.js is used by over 4 million developers globally. Vercel's platform provides deployment, hosting, and edge infrastructure optimized for modern web development, allowing developers to ship faster while achieving enterprise-grade performance. The company has raised over $500 million and was valued at $3.25 billion in 2024. Originally from Argentina, Rauch is a prolific open-source contributor, having created several popular JavaScript libraries and tools before Vercel. He has been named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 and is widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in modern web development. His dual role-leading both a commercial company and one of the most important open-source projects in web development-represents a distinctive model for developer-focused entrepreneurship that benefits millions of developers.