DoorDash's HTML Beginning
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Guillermo Rauch shares a story about DoorDash's humble beginnings.
"I actually just interviewed recently for off-site the founder of DoorDash, and he was talking about how DoorDash started out with one HTML page and six PDFs of the restaurants that they were gonna deliver for, and they just brought the idea online as soon as possible. To some people it becomes obvious that the most important thing is to get the idea out into the world as a URL and see if it sticks."
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.