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At the Weather Company, we have about
130 meteorologists that spend all

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of their time focusing
on weather patterns,

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weather systems all over the world.

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We calculate about 2.2 billion coordinates

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in a given 15 minute
period for its weather.

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The best thing about Vercel and where

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technology has gone
is it only gets better.

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We have about 350 million
monthly active users.

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A lot of that is on web,
but we try to make

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it seamless to understand where there's

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native views, where there's mobile views

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that provide a significant
amount of traffic.

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There was an opportunity that I saw
to recreate our web stack,

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the serving stack
that provides web components,

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but also the CMS and the CMS
provides editorial

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talent that we have for creating
new content.

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And it was really those two things that
we look to Vercel to make better for us

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to make the things that used
to be really hard much easier.

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Not only on the way that we serve
our content cost effectively,

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but the way we create our content
and create our designs.

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I've spent a lot of time in media.

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I was the CTO over at CNN and redoing
the things that we did at CNN that took us

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years in months is why we picked
Vercel. I'm still an engineer.

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I still get to code every day.

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And what I have found to reignite
my passion around technology is the volume

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and velocity at which Vercel and Next.js
have enabled me as an engineer to create

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new and better products.

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So the relationship we built with Vercel,
I feel like we're in this place where

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we were almost one team. We have an idea.

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They respond,
they have an idea, we respond.

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And so it's almost transparent
where they start and we end.

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So we operate like one team.

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We've seen an 80% increase
in productivity from thought to execution,

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from a design to a website.

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And so many of the products that we're

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starting to roll out
were in a tool executed

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in v0 to code published to Vercel
in a way that took it from days to hours.