Vercel CEO Takes Selfie With Israel’s Netanyahu, Spurring Flurry of Backlash

Vercel is facing a major controversy after its CEO posted a selfie with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Employee resignations and cancelled contracts have hounded the project ever since.

This firestorm could hamper the company’s fledgling efforts to integrate with the Web3 sector. Its competitors have already gone viral, with strong condemnations and tutorials on abandoning Vercel’s infrastructure.

Vercel, an American AI and cloud services company, is not a huge presence in the Web3 space, but it has made important inroads recently.

For example, it partnered with Ledger to implement new traffic solutions, built wallet managers on Coinbase’s infrastructure, and powered some SUI-based NFT marketplaces in the last year alone.

However, this expansion may stop in its tracks soon, as Vercel is in a firestorm of controversy after its CEO had a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu.

The meeting, which took place in New York, involved a discussion on AI and a selfie that has since gone viral.