Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel, where he leads the company’s mission to enable the world to ship the best products. Originally from Argentina, became a self-taught developer at the age of ten, and has been a passionate contributor to the open-source community ever since. He is the designer and co-author of Next.js, the world's most popular React framework and is also the creator of socket.io, Mongoose.js, and Now. In May 2024, Vercel completed a $250M Series E round led by Accel at $3.25 bln valuation and was recently named to the Forbes Cloud 100.