Guillermo Rauch — CEO, Vercel

**Guillermo Rauch** is the CEO of **Vercel**, the frontend cloud platform that hosts millions of websites and is the company behind **Next.js**, the most popular React framework. Born in Argentina, he moved to San Francisco and became one of the most influential figures in web development. He previously created Socket.io (real-time web framework), Mongoose (MongoDB ODM), and served as CTO of LearnBoost and Cloudup (acquired by WordPress).