In September 2025, posted a selfie with Israeli PM Netanyahu at a private AI meeting in New York, captioning it with praise for Netanyahu and optimism for "peace, safety, and greatness for Israel and its neighbours." The post exceeded 33 million views on X and triggered a developer boycott of Vercel with hundreds canceling subscriptions and several employees publicly resigning. Rauch made no public apology.
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Guillermo Rauch
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Founder and CEO of Vercel. Creator of Next.js and Socket.io.
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Posted on X on November 6, 2024: "Congrats President Trump. Excited about the impact X, prediction markets, citizen journalism, podcasts, and the open web played in fostering democracy and a free media. It's a new world." Developer community reaction was mixed; some migrated projects to competitors like Netlify and Cloudflare Pages, while others defended his right to personal expression. The company later raised $300M at $9.3B valuation.