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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Windsurf comes up on Latent Space, 20VC, TBPN, Lenny's Podcast, Sourcery
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.
How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
- ▶ 15:41 Martin Casado I think I think it's worth talking about competition because my, you know, my experience with all of our experience with Cursor is that there was always like a looming existential threat, and we always forget about it, but like, you know,… 2 times in the scene
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?
Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 8:19 Molly O'Shea In a redemption story of a company called Windsurf. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:19 Scott Wu The old Cognition, or the old Windsurf, or do they join after, you know, that time, and it's kind of like, yeah, it's, it's been, it's been really nice in that time.
- ▶ 13:47 Scott Wu Windsurf, on the other hand, um, because it had kind of, like, scaled up go-to-market and, and set all that up, it was, um, around 200 people at the time. 4 times in the scene
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
⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- ▶ 0:14 unnamed speaker Yeah, um, I don't think I, like, we, like, quite overlapped when, when you were at Windsurf, but obviously I was close to the Windsurf team, Varun and the other guys, and it's really surprising to see that, you know, you have sort of gone… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27 unnamed speaker I think Codium and then Windsurf had a bit of a mix of like product engineering and model training. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:05 Ronak Malde I remember back when we were at Windsurf, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:06 Ronak Malde I, I felt like when we were at Windsurf again, like, doing, uh, just, like, seeing how developers were using coding agents and, like,
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
"We Don't Trust Agents" - What This CTO Knows That You Don't · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 4:21 Shensi Ding Um, we also started really aggressively leading into AI coding, so Gil and I, like, paused back on the keyboard, like, using Cloud Code really aggressively, using Windsurf really aggressively, so we could also learn how to code, um, with…
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- ▶ 1:00:02 unnamed speaker Okay, one more last thing before we go, uh, Windsor two point 2 times in the scene
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:14 Pete Koomen And so you had, uh, kind of the first generation, uh, windsurf and cursor that were well-established by this point.
Q1 2026 w/Carta: What you need to raise a Series A. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta · PMF Show
- ▶ 32:52 Peter Walker There was a little bit of a wave that went through private tech when the windsurf stuff happened, and like, what it means to be part of an early team.
Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)
- ▶ 1:05 Graham Moreno And I think the reality is that I've found that it's very much in the middle, like, windsurf cognition. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:50 Brett Berson If you think about large enterprise and your experience with Windsurf and then Cognition, and you think about excellence in sales, what is different? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:18 Graham Moreno Like pretty quickly, people realized that they weren't going to build co-pilot or cursor or windsurf. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:18 Graham Moreno Nicole came, built out Windsurf and brought similar to like Nicole and Jeremy worked really closely together at Mongo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:04 Graham Moreno But I think something that we did really well at Windsurf, and this was like semi-accidental, is rather than creating an organization where there was like inherent conflict. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:52 Graham Moreno What we would do, the Mongo one was more intense at Windsurf.
- ▶ 54:03 Graham Moreno The best day of my career was when Cognition acquired Windsurf, and I like saw what
- ▶ 59:14 Graham Moreno If you're not spending 70 to 80% of your time three to six months out, then I would be curious to know what you are spending your time on, because certainly at Windsurf, like, a huge amount of my time was spent on, like, looking at the…
- ▶ 1:00:17 Graham Moreno So like at Windsurf, which is where I have that context, it was the partner organization.
The Story Behind Cerebras’ $63 Billion IPO with Founder and CEO Andrew Feldman
- ▶ 25:17 Andrew Feldman They bought Windsurf over a weekend, right?
Google I/O: Day 1 Reactions, Goldman to Lead SpaceX IPO | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:12 John Coogan More than windsurf? 2 times in the scene
Tech Earnings Quadkill, Red Button vs Blue Button | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:43 unnamed speaker But the, the, the horse race has always been, you know, windsurf cognition and cursor and, and codex and cloud code and like,
China Blocks Meta’s $2B Manus Deal, Meta Bets on Space-Based Solar | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:24 Jordi Hays I, I don't know the exact terms of the deal, but it would have been, it probably would have been easier to do something like what grok and Nvidia did or like the windsurf Google thing where like,
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.
SpaceX-Cursor Deal, ChatGPT Images 2.0, Fake Bear Scam | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:59 unnamed speaker Uh, category, and, uh, yeah, he's licking his chops thinking about, uh, who might want to hop over to, uh, Cognition Cursor, uh, Cognition Windsurf Devon Cursor, Zombie Corp, as the, uh, as the ghost ships continue to line up on the shores…
The Axios Supply Chain Attack Explained
- ▶ 8:02 unnamed speaker The question is like, how does this update diffusion of, of coding agents, diffuting, diffusion of vibe coding, ah, is this, I was, I was sort of saying, is this bullish for cursor, windsurf, you know, code readers, because you would see…
How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 8:13 Scott Wu And so, I mean, a simple example of this is like we bought Windsurf, you know, seven, eight months ago at this point, but like, we don't have a distinction of like, oh, this person's an engineer working on Devon or this person's engineer… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:35 Scott Wu Yeah, no, it's, it's, I mean, it's, we've had a ton of growth over the last, I guess it's just under a year since we last talked, um, and obviously, you know, back in July, we bought Windsurf, but, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:18 Scott Wu Uh, we use, you know, windsurf and then the agents inside windsurf internally as well.
"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…
The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder
- ▶ 40:56 Vlad Tenev And then of course, cursor and windsurf until that got acquired.
The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:16 Harj Taggar Like if we, if you think back a year ago, we were talking about cursor versus windsurf and like that product experience was essentially like,
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:31 unnamed speaker At that point, it was like the IDEs, cursor, windsurf were the things that were really taking off.
Is AI changing EVEN the Top Roles in startups?
- ▶ 4:20 Umesh Padval With regards to wipe coating, it's incredible how fast these wipe coating companies, like AnyScale with Cursor or Winsurf and others are growing.
#2296 The $7 Million Vibe Coded App
- ▶ 19:52 Josh Mohrer No, I don't write when I, right before that, I was coming from an IDE, like windsurf or whatever.
Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio (acquired for $5B by Capital One!)
- ▶ 29:28 James Reggio That provider, uh, as a, as a dev, you can pick, um, you know, between like cursor, windsurf, cloud code credits, like, and, and you can basically craft your, your stack to your preference and easily switch between them.
AI + B2B in 2026: Find the Tailwinds or Get Left Behind | Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 43:58 Jason Lemkin Windsurf, all these other tools.
[State of Code Evals] After SWE-bench, Code Clash & SOTA Coding Benchmarks recap — John Yang
[State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
- ▶ 33:31 unnamed speaker Maybe a bit of windsurf because it was left over from the previous thing.
Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- ▶ 8:48 Siddhartha Ahluwalia For example, with what happened with Windsurf, right?
[State of AI Startups] Memory/Learning, RL Envs & DBT-Fivetran — Sarah Catanzaro, Amplify
- ▶ 19:39 Sarah Catanzaro So, you know, if you're developing an app like Cursor, how do you ensure that your users don't, you know, switch over to, uh, uh, you know, windsurf?
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:28 Harry Stebbings One being Windsurf, uh, and the other being Chronosphere.
- ▶ 29:27 unnamed speaker I mean, you had the whole Google windsurf saga, right? 2 times in the scene
AI to AE's: Grit, Glean, and Kleiner Perkins' next Enterprise AI hit — Joubin Mirzadegan, Roadrunner
- ▶ 23:26 Shawn Wang You know, I just wanted to also touch on the other conversation that you had with Varun from Windsurf, which I also, I really enjoyed. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:57 Shawn Wang I think this is something that people don't appreciate about Windsurf is that they look at the product and they understand, they understand it's a, you know, it's a gigantic IDE, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:01 Joubin Mirzadegan Like, it's not this medic-type playbook in the very beginning, and then when you get to, like, where Windsurf was 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:41 Joubin Mirzadegan Or cognition or windsurf, like magic.
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:38 Jason Lemkin We, we, we, we talk about a couple LMs, but like so many of the, the high hot companies use their own LMs and their Chinese models, cursor zone model, Chinese model windsurf.
Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 15:43 Mark Bhargava So I got to be in the angel round of Harvey and together and windsurf and a lot of these names.
Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
- ▶ 18:56 Tomer Cohen You have to build, we are building that layer that basically allows it to do so, whether it's co-pilot or cursor, windsurf, and so on.
Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:43 Maor Shlomo Um, I think the cursor and the windsurf or cognition of the world are doing a fantastic job with focusing on the existing, um, dev community and kind of like target audience, and there's a lot to do there.
⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- ▶ 21:31 unnamed speaker Well, in, uh, Windsurf, we actually had this like, uh, thing where you can click on any symbol and it generates a deep wiki for you. 2 times in the scene
Cloudflare Outage, iMessages in Gemini 3, 𝕏 Reactions to Gemini 3 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:16 Jordi Hays Which IDE did they use to build anti-gravity, Windsurf, or Curser? 4 times in the scene
Google Gemini 3 Reactions, Google Antigravity, Anthropic-Nvidia-Microsoft Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:56 unnamed speaker And then with, you know, the launch of, ah, you know, Windsurf, Cognition, Devin, it was like, you couldn't write code with the computer, now you can.
- ▶ 14:59 unnamed speaker I remember, remember when, when, uh, when Windsurf acquisition, whatever you want to call it, was announced, and, uh, it was positioned, it's like, hey, the team is well-funded and has a product used and loves by, you know, thousands of… 2 times in the scene
Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:25 unnamed speaker I think it emerged Curser, I think it emerged, ah, you know, kind of Winsurf, and then to a different extent Cognition, by the B, and it was obvious that those were the names. 2 times in the scene
Wednesday’s Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:21 John Coogan If it was April Fools and, and Michael Truel at cursor or Scott Wu with windsurf, we're like, we're doing, we're doing a brain rod version of the IDE. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:05 unnamed speaker It's way better than windsurf.
- ▶ 19:43 John Coogan It, they're always, you know, a year or two or five behind cursor and windsurf.
⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
- ▶ 14:06 Vivek Ravisankar So we took a lot of inspiration from the Cursors of the world or the Windsor of the world, whatever it is, like, in terms of, like, IDE, Copilot next to it, building code repositories and making this as real as possible.
- ▶ 15:15 unnamed speaker No, like not only do I work at Cognition and Winsurf, and then I also, you know, am like organizing this AIE code thing, which, uh, you know, you're definitely invited to, but like, it's like, yeah, everyone's launching a terminal and… 2 times in the scene
Why Finding Your ‘Rapido Bet’ and Surviving Your ‘Meesho Miss is the Best Job | Pratik & Brij
- ▶ 1:08:53 Siddhartha Ahluwalia But, but again, right, we were discussing about ambition, like for example, recent deals like, you know, windsurf getting bought by Google for 2.4 billion is getting bought 2 times in the scene
The Best Vibe Coding Tools in 2026
- ▶ 1:10 unnamed speaker Okay, so, Lovable, VZero, Bolt, Cloud Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Vibecode, Rourke. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:29 Greg Isenberg True, but what I will say about Cursor versus Windsurf, there's a lot more tutorials on Cursor, so.
- ▶ 16:40 unnamed speaker You don't want to be windsurfed.
- ▶ 25:12 unnamed speaker People who bet on windsurf got windsurfed.
Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
- ▶ 26:16 Jeetu Patel So far, we use largely a combination of Codex, Claude, and, um, and Cursor, some Winsurf.
From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:50 Jake Heller Everyone in the world, you know, can already have the best coding assistant in tools like Cursor and Winsurf, et cetera, right?
No Priors Ep. 137 | With Warp Co-Founder & CEO Zach Lloyd
How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal
- ▶ 58:07 Ashish Toshniwal You know, ChatGPT, Anthropic, they are going to cut into you, which you are seeing probably with coding agents, you know, Windsurf and, um, Cursor.
Value Lives in the Mind of the Customer, Not in Your Product
- ▶ 8:58 Dan Bilkowski Ok, cursor has this, and so windsurf comes behind like, well, we're just going to kind of use what they have so that, you know, it seems to be working well enough for them.
- ▶ 23:47 Dan Bilkowski When, uh, Windsurf, uh, the deal's not closed, but Windsurf is an agreement to be acquired by OpenAI, uh, OpenAI and Anthropic are direct competitors. 2 times in the scene
Elad Gil of Gil Capital, Gil & Co. & Enigma Global · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- ▶ 26:45 Zach Lloyd So every other single product out there is either a clone of VS Code, which again is Codex or Cursor or Windsor for whatever.
Inside The $2.2B AI Research Accelerator | Turing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 2:42 Molly O'Shea But I tweeted out, just got back from Ray's summit in Paris, where AI's top names, like Grok, Cerebris, Eric Schmidt, Lovable, and Windsurf, this was like right before the Windsurf thing, by the way, I don't know if you remember that, all… 2 times in the scene
No Priors | With Palo Alto Networks CEO & Former Chief Business Officer of Google Nikesh Arora
Inside the Trillion-Dollar AI Buildout | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 11:10 Dylan Patel Um, it's, you know, it's WindSurf.
Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- ▶ 3:38 Quinn Slack First, it started with Copilot, and then, Cody, we were really good at Chatrag, and then Cursor and Windsurf showed that kind of IDE forks and partially agentic things could get better and better, and then, you know, the next generation,…
GPT-5 is NOT Your Competitor It's GPT-7 |Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital | Databricks,Turing, Cohesity
- ▶ 28:07 Siddhartha Ahluwalia For example, with what happened with Windsurf, right?
20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
- ▶ 20:30 Harry Stebbings When you compare it to like a cursor or a windsurf, you don't have that same parallel.
- ▶ 25:16 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Varun at Windsurf about this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:45 Harry Stebbings Like, no offense, your engineers are debating between Cursor and Windsurf and what the new MCP XYZ protocol is.
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
No Priors Ep. 132 | With Decagon CEO and Co-Founder Jesse Zhang
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:07 Aaron Levie They can build that feature faster because of, you know, cursor, windsurf, et cetera, replit.
- ▶ 25:29 Aaron Levie As long as you can find not, how to not be so greedy that your pricing is sort of like, is kind of like offensive, you know, look at like, again, Windsurf, Replit, Cursor, et cetera, like, we're at like non-offensive levels of pricing.
- ▶ 30:37 Aaron Levie And so having things like Replit or Cursor or Windsurf or whatever is actually very useful because now they can go and work on software for those things.
20VC: Why AI SDRs are BS and Do Not Work | How to Use AI in Your Sales Team and Process to Win Today | What Skills Do All New Reps Need to Have in an AI First World with Amit Bendov, CEO @ Gong
- ▶ 22:10 Harry Stebbings Because if you look at, say, like a windsurf or a cursor, actually the commoditization of technology means that they don't have leverage and the switching is much easier.
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