Swiss Job Opportunity
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Guillermo shares how he dropped out of high school for his first international job opportunity.
"When I was about 18, this startup from Switzerland reached out saying, 'Hey, we want to hire a MooTools developer.' That's when I basically just dropped out of high school. I had my first real job offer from a company in Lausanne, Switzerland.
For my parents and myself, it was kind of surreal. I'd never left the country, and I was leaving Argentina for the first time with a job offer in hand at an amazing country. It was surreal."
Guillermo Rauch
CEO and founder of Vercel, creator of Socket.IO
Guillermo Rauch is an Argentine-born software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder and CEO of Vercel (originally ZEIT, founded 2015), a cloud application company that created and maintains the Next.js web development framework. Before Vercel, he created Socket.IO, the widely-used real-time event-driven JavaScript communication library. Vercel raised $250 million in a Series E round in May 2024 at a $3.25 billion valuation and is also the maker of the v0 AI web development tool and the AI SDK.