Lawrence Chen
FounderFounder at Manaflow
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedManaflow Β· YC
About
Lawrence Chen is a Berkeley graduate who co-founded Manaflow and previously worked at Minion AI. He is currently developing cmux.com, an open source terminal designed for coding agents.
Lawrence Chen @lawrencecchen
Why does cmux exist? When cmux started, there were already a bunch of agent orchestrators, Claude Code Desktop, Codex App, Conductor... But I personally care about native apps and quality and taste. I really care that cmux was built on libghostty and not xterm.js/Electron.
Jul 31, 2026 Β· β₯ 176 Β· β 8
Lawrence Chen @lawrencecchen
chrome + ghostty + zed in one app with niri-like horizontal scroll cmux v2 coming soon https://t.co/fOroKplKFo
Jul 30, 2026 Β· β₯ 400 Β· β 18
Lawrence Chen @lawrencecchen
Quick video on how I used 367 billion tokens in the last 30 days by multitasking with cmux My peak per-day token usage is 37 billion tokens on GPT 5.6 Sol My workflow is pretty simple. The 80/20 is that I press Cmd+Shift+U whenever Codex notifies me, and I review the cmux dev https://t.co/o6A3jsEieA https://t.co/RCI1X4x6HF
Jul 29, 2026 Β· β₯ 76 Β· β 9
Founder at ManaflowYC S24
Intro paths
Lawrence went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Lawrence can intro founders to Manaflow's investors below.
Manaflow's investors Β· 2
Co-founders at Manaflow
Experience
- Manaflow (YC S24)Cofoundercurrent2024 β presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Minion AIAI Engineer2023 β 2024San Francisco, California, United States
- InstacoachFounding Engineer2021 β 2023
- Berkeley RISE LabUndergraduate Student Researcher2021 β 2023Berkeley, California, United States
- Transistor.bioFull Stack Engineer2021
- Supertutor Media Inc.Intern2020 β 2021
Education
- University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree, Computer Science
- Northwood High Schooln/a, n/a2017 β 2021
Skills & more
From Lawrence's professional profile.
Same school
Also attended University of California, Berkeley987
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