Windsurf, every mention
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NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 13:49 Jason Lemkin I mean, and again, anthropic did the same thing with windsurf when we started this show, right?
- ▶ 37:20 Harry Stebbings Um, what's happened with their acquisition of Winsurfer in the past?
- ▶ 42:35 Jason Lemkin When he, when he hired windsurf and hired, fired after people, he's like, these guys, we have to work seven days a week at our company.
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 19:17 Rory O'Driscoll Some of the coding tools, I think even, they didn't have a big business, but I think Windsurf and even, um, come on, Cursor were doing something else right at the start, but because they were super small, they pivoted in 22 really fast.
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 1:16:47 Nikesh Arora Hey, Winsurf sold to Cognition, right?
DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:56 unnamed speaker When we started this podcast, 60 weeks ago, it was toxic to be running cognition and telling folks they had to run seven days a week and laying off half of windsurf when you acquired them because they weren't willing to work hard enough.
Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:10 Nikesh Arora I think we had Windsurf, we had Devon, we had, which is now Cognition. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:32:01 Jason Calacanis When they acquired windsurf, he said, we're, we're letting a lot of the folks go
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:56 Jason Lemkin We thought, I mean, we, when we started the show, we were talking about Windsurfer.
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:15 Harry Stebbings From doing Windsurf's first round,
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:33 unnamed speaker And Michael from Cursor wrote this, not only did they leak the two billion, but he wrote a post, which, you know, a tweet article, which seemed kind of weird, but talking about how the whole future of Cursor is sort of safely managing…