Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on Building the Internet for Agents

What you'll learn

• 1 (00:04) **The Exponential Shift: From Humans to Agents** - Vercel has seen a dramatic shift from 3% to 60% of deployments coming from coding agents in a single year, adding 1.5 billion deployments in just 10 months after taking 10 years to reach the first billion.
• 2 (01:13) **Founding Philosophy: Tools, Transparency, and Iteration** - Rauch explains his background building developer tools and how the company's values of "iterate to greatness" and "dig deep" shape its culture and product development.
• 3 (03:32) **Operating Principles: Data, Anecdotes, and Real-Time Conversation** - Rauch discusses his management philosophy, emphasizing the importance of blending data with instinct and maintaining a real-time conversation with the market.
• 4 (07:24) **The Internet for Agents: New Protocols and Interfaces** - Vercel is retooling the internet for agent-to-agent communication, moving beyond human-centric HTML to new protocols like MCP for agents to discover and use tools.
• 5 (08:45) **The "Yes Code" Philosophy: Never Buy Software Again** - Rauch argues that the future is personalized, generated software rather than aggregated SaaS, with Vercel as the platform where code is free and you never have to buy software again.
• 6 (14:06) **Infrastructure for the Agent Era: Security, Sandboxes, and Guardrails** - Vercel is building new infrastructure to secure and contain autonomous agents, including enterprise platforms and secure sandboxes to prevent rogue agent behavior.
• 7 (17:13) **The Sandbox Challenge and Cybersecurity** - Vercel launched a million-dollar bounty for hacking its sandbox, leading to a critical vulnerability discovery that is now being shared with the industry.

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