Warp

“If you come to Warp, I don't know if it's the most unconventional thing, but, like, I only want to hire people who are a product-focused or product-oriented. And that could be in any role. It's true in engineering. It's true in marketing. It's true in sales. W…”

“And so there's two developer tools that matter. There's the code editor, the IDE, and there's the terminal.”

“And so we moved to this model and we called it agent mode, which everyone has copied that name, by the way, if you look it up on chat GPT, we were the first people to call anything agent mode.”

“And the business that we decided on was like, there's probably like an analogous business to like Figma or notion or Google docs, where you build a collaboration platform around these workflows that developers are doing from the command line. And so that busin…”

“Our thesis here now is like, neither a regular terminal nor a regular IDE is like the right approach for agentic developments. Like you really want a tool that's built for this workflow.”

“And so what we ended up doing instead of that was like basically posting on Hacker News that we were building this new terminal. It was built in Rust. It had all these features. We posted it with a waitlist, just like sign up, give us your email if you're inte…”

“So we raised, like, 15 to 17 at the A, and then the B was big. It was like a fifty million dollar Series B. Free revenue.”

“We're not quite at a million a week, but we're like, we're getting closer and closer to that.”

“So we're, you know, we're number one on one of the coding benchmarks, which is terminal bench. We're number three now on sweet bench. So the two public coding benchmarks.”