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Vercel V0 GM on Transforming Developer Workflows to Ship Faster | Zeb Hermann | E280

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Zeb Hermann

General Manager, v0 at Vercel

December 10, 2025

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In this episode, Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia interviews Zeb Hermann, General Manager, v0 at Vercel, the AI cloud platform recently valued at $9.3 billion. Zeb oversees v0, which has grown to 3.5 million unique users by fundamentally changing how developers and PMs build software.

Zeb dives into the operational shifts required to transform developer workflows and increase velocity. He explains why Vercel prioritizes a veto-based culture over approvals and how AI tools are enabling a new era of full-stack designers and PMs who contribute directly to the codebase.

What you’ll learn:

  • Speed as a Principle: How to move from an approvals-based culture to a vetoes-based culture.

  • The Full-Stack Team: Why the most effective teams have designers and PMs who ship their own PRs.

  • Prototype to Production: Strategies for closing the gap between AI prototypes and production-ready applications.

Key Takeaways 👇

  • Impact Over Hours: Why the 996 culture is wrong and how to measure true team impact.

  • Eliminating Handoffs: How to reduce coordination costs by empowering individuals to make product decisions.

  • Broadening Literacy: Why the future of workflows is about more people understanding code, not just using client-side overrides.

Credits:
Host: Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia
Guest: Zeb Hermann

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