Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days 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.

Chapters:
00:55 - From Argentina to Silicon Valley
06:20 - Founder-Market Fit & Early Mistakes
08:02 - Open Source as a Speedrun to Product-Market Fit
11:24 - Building for Agents First
13:55 - The Focus Decision That Made Vercel
17:56 - Defining Taste in the Age of Infinite Building
22:07 - Hiring Talent in 2026
26:56 - Crafting Signal in a Noisy World
31:44 - Agents, Conviction & Playing Long-Term Games

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