Vercel $150M Series D at $2.5B valuation (#34)

I joined Vercel as employee #34. We're grown a lot from Series A and today we announced our $150M Series D at a $2.5B valuation. I took some time to write about working at a hypergrowth company and reflected on my past year and a half at Vercel.

Updates

• I wrote a post Rust Is the Future of JavaScript Infrastructure, which now has over 80,000 views and hit #1 on Hacker News.
• I recorded a new video Should you learn JavaScript before React?
• I recorded a code walkthrough for leerob.io (Next.js / Tailwind / Prisma / PlanetScale).
• I joined a podcast with swyx called Next.js, Vercel, and the SDK for the Web.
• Vercel is supporting Svelte in a big way by hiring Rich Harris.

Next.js Conf

Next.js 12 was released at Next.js Conf. There's so much from Next.js Conf I'm excited about, but I'll share a few highlights I was involved with:

• Talking with Kelsey Hightower about the future of the Edge
• Showing a demo of React Server Components with Next.js
• Showing a demo of the new Rust Compiler and URL Imports

In case you missed it, all of the conference talks are on YouTube.

Bookmarks

• React 18 is in beta
• "People come for the features, but they stay for the details."
• Prisma and PlanetScale Integration
• A technical breakdown of react-three-fiber
• Writing great alt text: Emotion matters
• Cloudflare, Netlify, PlanetScale, Remix, and Prisma all with announcements
• stylex (zero runtime CSS-in-JS) is getting open-sourced