Re-creating the command line to be more useable, humane, and powerful for everyone
Our Ethos
The command line is both incredibly powerful and annoyingly hard to use.
Master it and gain super-powers: from controlling your cloud systems, to manipulating local files and programs, writing quick workflows and more...it's a developer's swiss-army knife.
Despite its power, it's a very hard tool to master. It has a notoriously steep learning curve - it doesn't work like other tools, nothing in it helps you learn how to use it well, it's very easy to make destructive mistakes, and so on.
Many developers avoid it for these reasons. But for those who do learn how to use it well, they become much better at development and devops. Mastering the CLI lets you work faster with your existing tools, and increases their power because a keyboard driven, repl-style interface has many advantages over GUIs.
At Warp, our goal is to re-create the command line as a modern app, making a more usable, humane and, ultimately, more powerful CLI for everyone.
Check out this post from our founder Zach Lloyd on why he started Warp.
Team
Our small but growing team has helped create, design, and build some of the most popular productivity tools in existence at companies like Google, LinkedIn, and Dropbox.
Past: Principal Eng at Google Docs, Co-founder / CTO at SelfMade, Interim CTO at TIME.
Past: Intern at Slack, Facebook and Robinhood, KP Fellow, Yale Alum.
Past: Senior Engineer / TL at Google Docs, Pomona Alum.
Past: Intern at Linkedin and Microsoft, Minerva Schools at KGI Alum
Past: Engineer at Dropbox, Gem, Waterloo Alum.
Past: Staff Tools Engineer at LinkedIn, UI Engineer at Sony, Volta Maintainer.
Past: Intern at Facebook, Pomona College, Erdos #2.
Past: Engineer #1 at Sympto Health, Intern at DoorDash, Xbox.
Past: Engineer at Facebook, Stanford Alum.
Past: Intern at Snowflake, Waterloo Alum.
Past: Staff SWE / TL for YouTube Live Interactivity, Brown Alum.
Past: SWE at Doordash, SWE at Microsoft, Harvey Mudd Alum.
Past: Recruiter at Airtable, UC Berkeley Alum.
Past: Technical Support Engineer at VMware.
Past: SWE at YouTube Shorts and Google Ads, Harvard Alum.
Past: Intern at Apple, Stanford Alum.
Past: Engineer at Instagram, UC Berkeley Alum.
Past: Product Design at Meta, Compass, Pivotal/VMWare/Cloud Foundry, Microsoft
Past: VPE at Dialpad, Sr. Director at Reddit.
Past: Engineer at The New York Times, SeatGeek, Intern at Facebook, Instagram, Princeton Alum.
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Past: Engineer at Gem, Waterloo Alum
Past: Engineer at Twitter, Brown Alum.
Past: Netlify, FullStory
Past: SWE at Bowery Farming. HBS Alum.
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Past: SWE at Kalshi, intern at Google, Reddit and Tilt, Barnard/Columbia Alum.
Past: Staff SWE at Square, SWE at Splunk. Stanford alum.
Past: Intern at Amazon, Penn Alum.
Join us
We are a company run by developers, building a core product for all developers. We are product-first engineers, which means we are constantly focusing on the user-experience, and make all of our engineering choices with the goal of building the best product we can for our users. Warp is fully-remote, with an optional office in New York City.
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Backed by top venture funds and operators
Experience the power of Warp
- Write with an IDE-style editor
- Easily navigate through output
- Save commands to reuse later
- Ask Warp AI to explain or debug
- Customize keybindings and launch configs
- Pick from preloaded themes or design your own