july 2025 – lee robinsonAfter five years at Vercel, I just finished my last week. What a ride!When I joined in 2020, we were 30 people and had crossed $1M ARR. Today, Vercel is 650 people and over $200M ARR. During that time, I went from IC to VP and worked on DevRel, product, community, docs, and more.Here are some of the lessons I learned and how I grew as a leader and manager, as well as a bunch of behind-the-scenes photos.1. Go hard at work, then go homeI responded to a Next.js tweet while s...