Zach Lloyd
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We were like,
You know, it was a free product at that point with good user growth, but not really like a good business model or not a business.
Like we weren't even monetizing.
You weren't monetizing at the B. We were not monetizing at the B. This is this was so this was another frothy, crazy period.
Right.
So this was like pre-AI.
And I don't know if I speak for Andrew, but I think Andrew again was like there's some amount of pattern matching.
And then I think he liked me.
And I think he liked that we were building a really hard app in a big market.
And so they invested very early.
How much did he invest?
How much was the round?
That was a $50 million round.
Which I think, by the way, he's going to look very smart.
We talked about it for a long time.
Again, I'm probably unusually transparent for founder here.
But we're a terminal company, which is not a real market, just to be clear.
And so it's very much like we're displacing a free product
The thesis of warp was like, Hey, there's this, there's this tool that, you know, every developer uses every single day that kind of sucks.
And like, I still believe this, there's a much better version of this that could exist.