A Helluva Ride: Farewell to Vercel
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#life
October 3, 2025
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Hey team,
This week is my last at Vercel. It is a bittersweet moment. I am excited to join Anaconda leading their revenue enablement function, but I am leaving the most special place I have ever had the privilege of being part of.
Vercel is special. Not perfect, no place is, but truly special. I wanted to share some thoughts, and brevity is not my strength, so apologies in advance…
I joined almost four years ago, and it has been a helluva journey. I am proud of what our enablement teams have built: from @Teagan and @Chloe launching the learning portal and our first Baseline Technical Certification courses, to @Elizabeth creating our first GTM offsite and sales kickoff, to @Nikki laying the foundations for our technical readiness programs, to @Russ and @Maian shaping the Field Readiness Bootcamp and dedicated pre- and post- sales enablement, to @Alice’s Web Foundations series, and so much more.
This was our best work, and I hope it was fuel for so many of you to do your best work.
But even more than pride, I feel gratitude.
Gratitude to have learned from and worked alongside some of the greatest minds in web development, GTM, and G&A. Through it all, Vercel has stretched me and shaped me, and I am so thankful for this season of my career.
On a personal note, many of you know I love to talk about my family. Vercel even shaped me as a parent. Just recently I taught my 10 yo daughter Markdown, showed her how to vibe-code a blog with v0, and then deploy it to Vercel. Watching her eyes light up with creativity, and sharing that joy together, is a gift we will both carry forever. That is because of what this team has built.
So here's to you, Vercel. I cannot wait to see what you accomplish next. I still believe you are on a rocket and the accomplishments and ambitions we have today are only glimmers of the greatness this team can achieve.
But if I may offer a final admonition: achieving what is next will not be easy, and it is not supposed to be. The best things never are. Never forget that building a great product can take you far, but building a team of great people will make your potential limitless, indeed the only thing that can get in our way is ourselves. So it will take discipline. It will take determination. It will take going all in. If you ask me, there is nothing better than that—at work, at home… in life, balance is not about holding back, it is about giving your full energy to the things that matter most. If you go all in here, on this mission for the web, I believe it will be one of the most rewarding chapters of your career. It has certainly been that for me.
I will always be rooting for you, and yes, I am counting on you to pay off my mortgage and then some 😆.
For the web,
Joe
:lfg: let’s fucking go.