First of Kind: The @rauchg interview Season 3 starts now. I sat down with Guillermo in San Francisco to talk about layout shift, random acts of AI, and a dragon painted in a single stroke. 00:00 Human Effort Is Still Underrated 00:44 Chief Executive, Chief Designer 02:33 Two Bets: Software and English 05:15 Gmail Was My Siren Call 11:06 Exposure Hours 14:49 Layout Shift / One Stroke Dragon 17:10 No Random Acts of AI 25:17 Can Agents Have Taste? 30:15 Software Factories and Manufacturing Agent Customers 34:59 Everything Is Communication 38:04 A New American Story 41:52 Lifemaxxing Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of @vercel. Growing up in Argentina, he taught himself English in order to teach himself programming, then went on to create @nextjs and other foundational technology for the real-time web. In our conversation, Guillermo explains why he designed Vercel’s first command line before writing any code, why layout shift erodes trust, and why his company won’t commit any “random acts of AI.” G is not just a chief executive. He’s a chief designer. — Guillermo Rauch: One Stroke Dragon First of Kind, S3:E01 @firstofkind Hosted by @soleio and produced with @room3nyc Powered by our sponsors: @framer @noondesign @bot @tryramp @vercel @meetgranola @profound

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