Warp’s original product vision was to build a better terminal, which the speaker described as a widely used daily developer tool that was difficult to use and had changed little over time.

“pitch and vision was hey there's this like tool that most developers use every day which you know the terminal that I think is like kind of hard to use tool hasn't really changed in a long time but if you get really good at using it you can be like an incredibly productive developer and like all the best developers or a lot of the best developers I've worked with that are really good at using it and so it's like can we build a better version of that as a product”