Cloud hosting platform Vercel is under fire after its CEO, Guillermo Rauch, shared a photo of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.
The image, which Rauch framed around discussions of AI education and “keeping our free societies ahead”, was immediately read as a political statement given Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Within hours, developers and users across social media declared they were cancelling their Vercel subscriptions, deleting accounts, and migrating projects to competitors like Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, Fly.io, and Render.
How out of touch do you have to be to post such a photo now?
How fucking thick do you have to be to post a selfie with Netanyahu if you’re selling a platform for software engineers, notoriously a group of people at least somewhat educated, full of leftists (the entire open source movement could be considered communism) and terminally online.
Name and shame: Guillermo Rauch is a genocide supporter.
Can’t imagine how someone thinks this is even a good business move. “Israel” gov doesn’t need hobbyist grade quick deploy pipeline. A ton of the people who do will boycott.
heart-warming. uplifting. sometimes i feel that i live in a world where “cash is king” and ego matters more than almost anything else.
You do, “Cash is King” is why people canceling these things en masse makes a difference in the world… you make a difference in their bottom line.
My only regret is that I cant vote with my wallet against things I cant afford to buy in the first place.
