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name: Guillermo Rauch
published: published
slug: guillermo-rauch
start: January 1, 2000
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  linkedin: 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillermo-rauch-b834b917b/'
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websites:
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# Guillermo Rauch

CEO at [Vercel](https://vercel.com), a cloud platform for static sites that fits around a Jamstack workflow. He’s also the co-creator of Next.js. He previously founded LearnBoost and CloudUp, and is well-known as the creator of several popular node open source libraries like [Socket.io](https://socket.io/), [Mongoose](https://mongoosejs.com/), and [SlackIn](https://github.com/rauchg/slackin). Prior to that, he was a core developer on [MooTools](https://mootools.net/).
