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.
What an incredibly dumb thing to do. They deserve all of the backlash they’re getting no matter how and why the selfie happened.
For people, usually with empathy, it’s dumb, for others this may be a call for business. And there isn’t a shortage of people supporting the genocide. US literally had 2 genocide enablers for last president election. Rich people in US never shy away from the most unethical shit to make more money.
What do you think the military industrial complex has been doing since WWII?
How is this business? Dude literally lost a shit ton of customers.
Doesn’t have to be smart business.
If you mean he forgot to caption “about to put a haymaker through this guy´s dick” I doubt that´s the case here