Today, we announce $40M in new funding to help everyone build the next web. When responding to investors, we told them the stories of our customers, from independent developers to Fortune 10 companies, and the lessons we learned this year about how Next.js and Vercel help teams collaborate and move faster with greater flexibility. Airbnb’s engineering team, for example, isn’t a heavy user of Next.js yet , but they are a world-class team of designers, engineers, product managers, and marketers. They showed us how they use Vercel to quickly prototype, mark up, and collaborate on new features and pages. They use Vercel Preview URLs as their unit of collaboration, and it’s dramatically reduced their time to prototype and ship. Rather than waiting weeks to ship a flagged feature, it now takes minutes to start the feedback loop. TripAdvisor showed us how they use Vercel as a “component knowledge base” to make it easy for dozens of subsidiaries and sister companies to reuse and share components and code.…