Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel, the frontend cloud platform that powers millions of developers and some of the world's most visited websites. A self-taught engineer from Lanús, Argentina who never finished high school, Rauch built two of JavaScript's most widely used open-source libraries (Socket.IO and Mongoose), co-created Next.js — the world's most popular React framework — and turned Vercel into a $9.3 billion company with $340 million ARR. He is also one of the most prolific angel investors in tech, with over 700 known investments, and recently launched v0, an AI-powered coding tool with over 3.5 million users.
Wes Bos is a full-stack JavaScript developer, educator, and course creator from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has taught over 500,000 developers worldwide through his free and paid online courses covering JavaScript, CSS, React, and Node.js. His flagship free course JavaScript30 has over 682,000 enrollments. He co-hosts the popular web development podcast Syntax.fm with Scott Tolinski and CJ Reynolds. His course business has generated over $10M in revenue, largely as a solo operation with a free-tier marketing strategy that has built a massive, loyal audience.