No. 040 · 2015 · San Francisco

Vercel

Argentine kid, self-taught, git push to the world.

git push, done

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Make my startup a legend
  1. 1 A kid in Argentina learns Linux.
  2. 2 He ships libraries half the web uses.
  3. 3 Moves to San Francisco.
  4. 4 Deploying still sucks.
  5. 5 One command: live on the internet.
  6. 6 Next.js becomes the default.
  7. 7 ZEIT becomes Vercel.
  8. 8 Now it writes the app too.
Founders
Guillermo Rauch
Founded
2015, San Francisco
What they do
Frontend cloud and the home of Next.js.

The story

Rauch grew up in Argentina, taught himself to code and built open-source tools used across the web. He started ZEIT to make deploying as simple as one command, and it became Vercel in 2020.