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# NextJS

Guest Details

### Guillermo Rauch - CEO ZEIT

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillermo-rauch-b834b917b/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillermo-rauch-b834b917b/)

## Who is Guillermo Rauch?

1.  Tell us a little bit about yourself?
2.  What pushed you to leave your prior companies as CTO and take on the new role of CEO at Zeit?
3.  [https://zeit.co/about/rauchg](https://zeit.co/about/rauchg)
4.  [Zeit about Rauchg](https://zeit.co/about/rauchg)
5.  Do you still have time to code like you did back in the [https://socket.io/](https://socket.io/), [https://mongoosejs.com/](https://mongoosejs.com/) … days. Or has your daily switched over to more business focus and making great products?

## Zeit

1.  What is Zeit in a nutshell?
1.  How do you compare Zeit to something like Netlify or Firebase?
1.  Does Zeit run in the big three (AWS, Azure, GCloud)?

## NextJS

1.  Why did you start NextJS?
1.  What does NextJS allow you to do vs. create-react-app?
1.  You can create static pages on NextJS, so why would you use Gatsby instead?
1.  I have forced some of the static built lambdas to work on Google’s cloud functions, but why does it work so easily on Zeit?

## Rando Question

NextJS has its own page outside of Zeit, why Doesn’t NextJS have a twitter handle??

What is one of the most creative ways you have seen NextJS be implemented?

## Guillermo Quote

“Impossible just takes longer”
