Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of the web development platform Vercel and the creator of Next.js, one of the most widely used frameworks on the internet. In this Fireside chat, Guillermo explains how open source can accelerate product-market fit and why ruthless focus matters more than ever in the age of AI.

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