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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)

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Apr 13, 2025
Guillermo Rauch, the visionary founder and CEO of Vercel, discusses his mission to turn 100 million people into builders through innovative tools like V0. He explores how AI is reshaping product development, emphasizing the shift from coding to prompts. Guillermo shares tips on enhancing design taste and the rapid iteration process that can elevate product quality. He also details an impressive app build in under two hours, showcasing the efficiency of AI-driven development and the collaborative power of diverse teams in the emerging tech landscape.
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Full-Stack Empowerment

  • AI empowers individuals to become more full-stack in product development.
  • Designers can ship products, PMs can prototype, and engineers can broaden their scope.
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Understanding Underlying Systems

  • Understand underlying systems; don't just focus on translation tasks.
  • Knowing how things work empowers you to better influence AI models.
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Developing Taste

  • Develop "taste" by trying many products and increasing exposure hours.
  • Quantify time spent observing user interactions to improve your product sense.
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