Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create a hundred million builders | Guillermo Rauch (founder & …
Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create a hundred million builders | Guillermo Rauch (founder & CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 and Next.js)How AI is reshaping building—v0, exposure hours, taste, and the future of coding with Guillermo Rauch
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Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 (one of the most popular AI app building tools), and the mind behind foundational JavaScript frameworks like Next.js and Socket.io. An open source pioneer and legendary engineer, Guillermo has built tools that power some of the internet’s most innovative products, including Midjourney, Grok, and Notion. His mission is to democratize product creation, expanding the pool of potential builders from 5 million developers to over 100 million people worldwide. In this episode, you’ll learn:
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Where to find Guillermo Rauch: • X: https://x.com/rauchg • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rauchg/ • Website: https://rauchg.com/ In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Introduction to Guillermo Rauch (04:43) v0's mission (07:03) The impact and growth of v0 (15:54) The future of product development with AI (19:05) Empowering engineers and product builders (24:01) Skills for the future: coding, math, and eloquence (35:05) v0 in action: real-world applications (36:40) Tips for using v0 effectively (45:46) Core skills for building AI apps (49:44) Live demo (59:45) Understanding how AI thinks (01:04:35) AI integration and future prospects (01:07:22) Building taste (01:13:43) Limitations of v0 (01:16:54) Improving the design of your product (01:20:09) The secret to product quality (01:22:35) Vercel’s AI-driven development (01:25:43) Guillermo's vision for the future Referenced: • v0: https://v0.dev/ • Vercel: https://vercel.com/ • GitHub: https://github.com/ • Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/ • Next.js Framework: https://nextjs.org/ • Claude: https://claude.ai/new • Grok: https://x.ai/ • Midjourney: https://www.midjourney.com • SocketIO: https://socket.io/ • Notion’s lost years, its near collapse during Covid, staying small to move fast, the joy and suffering of building horizontal, more | Ivan Zhao (CEO and co-founder): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/inside-notion-ivan-zhao • Notion: https://www.notion.com/ • Automattic: https://automattic.com/ • Inside Bolt: From near-death to ~$40m ARR in 5 months—one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons (founder & CEO of StackBlitz): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/inside-bolt-eric-simons • v0 Community: https://v0.dev/chat/community • Figma: https://www.figma.com/ • Git Commit: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/saving-changes/git-commit • What are Artifacts and how do I use them?: https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/9487310-what-are-artifacts-and-how-do-i-use-them • Design Engineering at Vercel: https://vercel.com/blog/design-engineering-at-vercel • CSS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS • Tailwind: https://tailwindcss.com/ • Wordcel / Shape Rotator / Mathcel: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wordcel-shape-rotator-mathcel • Steve Jobs’s Ultimate Lesson for Companies: https://hbr.org/2011/08/steve-jobss-ultimate-lesson-fo • Bloom Hackathon: https://bloom.build/ • Expenses Should Do Themselves | Saquon Barkley x Ramp (Super Bowl Ad): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Tgsy7D0Jg • Velocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time | Geoff Charles (VP of Product): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/velocity-over-everything-how-ramp • JavaScript: https://www.javascript.com/ • React: https://react.dev/ • Mapbox: https://www.mapbox.com/ • Leaflet: https://leafletjs.com/ • Escape hatches: https://react.dev/learn/escape-hatches • Supreme: https://supreme.com/ • Shadcn: https://ui.shadcn.com/ • Charles Schwab: https://www.schwab.com/ • Fortune: https://fortune.com/ • Semafor: https://www.semafor.com/ • AI SDK: https://sdk.vercel.ai/ • DeepSeek: https://www.deepseek.com/ • Stripe: https://stripe.com/ • Vercel templates: https://vercel.com/templates • GC AI: https://getgc.ai/ • OpenEvidence: https://www.openevidence.com/ • Paris Fashion Week: https://www.fhcm.paris/en/paris-fashion-week • Guillermo’s post on X about making great products: https://x.com/rauchg/status/1887314115066274254 • Everybody Can Cook billboard: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/evilrabbit_activity-7242975574242037760-uRW9/ • Ratatouille: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382932/ Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. Invite your friends and earn rewardsIf you enjoy Lenny's Newsletter, share it with your friends and earn rewards when they subscribe. |
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