Building Jam | Ep. 21 How Warp Builds Product
Warp founder, Zach Lloyd, joins us on the Building Jam Podcast to talk about how they build product.
This week on Building Jam, we get an inside look at what makes Warp’s product development unique. Founder and CEO Zach Lloyd shares how engineers are directly responsible for project outcomes (rather than PMs), the team’s thesis around building consumer-grade developer tools, and how Warp approaches the speed vs. quality tradeoff.
We discuss:
0:52 Building consumer-grade developer tools
3:14 What does a feature launch look like at Warp?
7:21 Zack’s advice for deciding what to build
10:55 Warp’s team structure: core, AI, collaboration & revenue
14:11 Why engineers at Warp do PM-style interviews
19:00 “Founder Mode” and trusting the team to build a product that makes people happy
22:18 Trading notes on how Jam and Warp balance quality with velocity
26:00 Zack tells us about what it was like when Warp (40 people) was Jam’s size (18!)
30:46 Growth at Warp is building community and showing the product
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