How Vercel found product-market fit

In this episode of the Startup Field Guide podcast, Wei Lien Dang chats with Guillermo Rauch, founder and CEO of Vercel. Guillermo was the CTO and co-Founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He's the creator of several popular Node.JS open source libraries like socket.io, mongoose and slackin. ‍ Be sure to check out more Startup Field Guide Podcast episodes on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. Hosted by Unusual Ventures General Partner Sandhya Hegde (former EVP at Amplitude), the SFG podcast uncovers how the top unicorn founders of today really found product-market fit. ‍ If you are interested in learning more about some of the themes and ideas in this episode, please check out the Unusual Ventures Field Guides on starting open-source companies, developing open-source customers, and building open-source GTM. ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ Sandhya Hegde: Today, we'll be diving into the story of Vercel, an open-source web development platform company with thousands of customers last valu

In this episode of the Startup Field Guide podcast, Wei Lien Dang chats with Guillermo Rauch, founder and CEO of Vercel. Guillermo was the CTO and co-Founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He's the creator of several popular Node.JS open source libraries like socket.io, mongoose and slackin. ‍ Be sure to check out more Startup Field Guide Podcast episodes on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. Hosted by Unusual Ventures General Partner Sandhya Hegde (former EVP at Amplitude), the SFG podcast uncovers how the top unicorn founders of today really found product-market fit. ‍