Code-first vs. Product-first
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Why I like working with user-focused engineers
Z Zach Lloyd I’m currently the Founder and CEO of Warp , where we are building a modern Rust-based terminal. I used to be a Principal engineer at Google, running the Google Sheets team. Post-Google I was the Co-Founder and CTO of the venture-backed startup SelfMade, and the interim CTO at TIME. We are passionate about making a more usable, humane and, ultimately, more powerful CLI for developers and their teams. We are a company run by developers , building a core product for all developers. That's great because we can use our product as we build it, and we build what solves our problems. We a
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