Kindred Ventures Lunch & Learn: Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel
Please join us for a Kindred Lunch & Learn on Tuesday, November 19th in Jackson Square, San Francisco. This fireside chat will feature Guillermo Rauch, Founder & CEO of Vercel, in conversation with Steve Jang, Managing Partner of Kindred Ventures. They will discuss Guillermo's early days starting Vercel, his mission of simplifying Web development and deployment, and how AI is changing the future of the Web.
A light lunch will be served starting at 12pm before the chat starts at 12:30pm.
Previous Kindred Ventures event guest speakers include Dara Khosrowshahi (CEO of Uber), Jack Dorsey (Founder, Twitter and Block), Tuan Pham (ex-CTO of Uber), and Tim Ferriss (Bestselling Author and Podcaster).
Guillermo Rauch
CEO & Founder, Vercel
Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel where he leads the company’s mission to enable the world to ship the best products. Prior to founding Vercel, Guillermo co-founded LearnBoost and Cloudup where he served the company as CTO through its acquisition by Automattic in 2013.
Originally from Argentina, Guillermo has been a developer since the age of ten and is passionate about contributing to the open source community. He has created a number of JavaScript projects including socket.io, Mongoose.js, Now, and Next.js.
Steve Jang
Founder & Managing Partner, Kindred Ventures
Steve Jang is the Founder and a Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures. In 2023 and 2024, he was featured on the Forbes Midas List as one of the top 50 tech venture capital investors in the world. His early investments include Coinbase and Uber, where he served as an advisor and angel investor since their inception in 2009. Before entering venture capital, Steve was a serial entrepreneur and angel investor.
More recently, he has invested in startups focused on AI, Crypto/Decentralized Networks, and Frontier Tech, including Color Health, dYdX, Fal, Humane, Magic Eden, Perplexity AI, Tonal, Whisper Aero, and Zora. Over his investing career, Steve has backed eight companies valued at over $1B and two valued at over $60B, three of which are publicly traded today.