Episode #11 of Yesterday:

This week, we cover the life story of Guillermo Rauch, the founder and CEO of Vercel.

Rauch grew up in Lanús, a working-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He taught himself to code and by 11, he was freelancing online for clients abroad. In his teens, he became well-known for creating several influential open-source projects, including Socket.IO and Mootools.

Rauch then dropped out of high school to work in Switzerland, and after a stint there, he moved to San Francisco. Around 2015, he founded Vercel (originally called ZEIT) out of Dogpatch Labs with the vision of radically simplifying frontend deployment through tools like Next.js, which his team also maintains.

Today, Vercel powers the websites of Netflix, MrBeast, Supreme, and many more — and is valued in the multiple billions of dollars.

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