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Cognition added roughly $80M in run-rate revenue in six to eight months
“Yeah, look, I don't want to get into exact numbers, but even with the windsurf deal aside, like not including that at all, we are basically, we've done roughly that as well in the last six to eight months.”
Lemkin: Cognition memo stated Windsurf had $82 million ARR
“The memo that Cognition sent to his employees was that they're buying an eighty-two million dollar AR business, ok?”
Lemkin: New thin-wrapper AI IDEs will continually emerge
“In, in six months, if these are rappers, more, a new windsurf is going to emerge. It's just an IDE on top of the same models, right?”
Cognition negotiated and signed the Windsurf acquisition over a single weekend
“Get, get to a verbal agreement on Saturday, hash out all the details and the terms and the legal on Sunday, get everything signed and done on Monday morning.”
Cognition initiated cold outreach to acquire Windsurf on a Friday night
“We reached out cold Friday evening and our first conversation was Friday night.”
Cognition learned of Windsurf's Google deal at the same time as the public
“We found out, honestly, on Friday, the same time everyone else did, that all of this was happening, and that this was the split, and that it was Google”
O'Driscoll: Cognition acquired Windsurf with $82M revenue and $100M cash
“Stupendously good optics plus eighty two million of revenue plus a hundred million in cash plus great injury. They win.”
Lemkin: Windsurf grew from $12M to $100M ARR in four months
“Their numbers, they published or the whisper numbers were roughly accurate by twelve million at the end of last year to a hundred million by April.”
O'Driscoll: Windsurf was set to raise capital at a $3B valuation
“It's worth remembering that they were about to raise money at three billion pre. Three months ago, which would have been a down outcome.”
O'Driscoll: Major AI labs will inevitably acquire an AI coding app
“If they don't do if they don't do Winsurf now, the line of other coding apps outside the OpenAI office is going to go around the frickin' block. And at some point, someone's gonna buy something.”
Lemkin: AI coding startup Windsurf operates 100% in-office
“I know windsurf's a hundred percent in the office.”
Lemkin: Cursor, Bolt, and Windsurf struggled for years before exploding
“I mean, I know Cursor almost died, right? Bolt almost died, right? And then finally it hit for Cursor. I don't know the whole story of Windsurf. Even Windsurf was Codium before it, right? It wasn't even the same, like everyone talks about Windsurf. 90 days ago…”