Guillermo Rauch

Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create a hundred million builders | Guillermo Rauch (founder and CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 and Next.js)

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Opening
Guillermo Rauch (00:00:00): One of our users yesterday submitted feedback. MUSIC (00:00:00): (instrumental music) Guillermo Rauch (00:00:02): They were saying, "v0 is like a super genius five-year-old PhD with ADHD." I'm not going to oversell this. It knows everything about everything, but it has these sparks of brilliance. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:14): How do you think things are going to change for product managers, for product teams? Guillermo Rauch (00:00:18): People could be more full stack....

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Low-ego framing
MUSIC (00:00:00): (instrumental music) Guillermo Rauch (00:00:02): They were saying, "v0 is like a super genius five-year-old PhD with ADHD." I'm not going to oversell this. It knows...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (00:59:22): Incredible. Thank you for doing the demo. I'm just trying to imagine having an engineer I'm working with, asking them to do these things,...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Return warmth
Lenny Rachitsky (00:04:57): Oh, I appreciate that. Okay, I know you saw this, I did this survey recently where I asked my readers, "What tools do you use most in...

Matches the guest's warmth and keeps the social temperature generous.

Carry memory
Lenny Rachitsky (00:11:34): I want to come back to that. That's actually a really good question. But let me ask a couple other questions here. In terms of v0, what's the...

Returns to something said earlier, proving the conversation has memory.

Low-ego framing
of GitHub, whereas GitHub, it was a marvel for software development because I don't know if you remember this, but the initial, little tagline underneath the GitHub logo was social coding. And it had this...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.