Windsurf

5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 27, 2025 by Scott Wu · said 13 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Aug 27, 2025 neutral
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Wu: Cognition's core engineering team grew from 19 to 30-35 post-Windsurf
“With Windsurf, obviously, the team count has grown a lot, but actually, you know, with core engineering itself, it hasn't actually gotten all that much bigger. It's gone from 19 to something in the range of like 30 to 35.”
Scott Wu Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 37:50 A Cheeky Pint with Cognition CEO Scott Wu
Aug 27, 2025 positive
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Wu: Only a small fraction of Windsurf team took Cognition buyout offer
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think for us, it's you know, and most folks have been really excited to come in and do it, and only a small fraction have taken the buyout, but I think from our perspective we just want to make sure it's an opt-in, you know, situation for e…”
Scott Wu Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 54:37 A Cheeky Pint with Cognition CEO Scott Wu
Aug 27, 2025 bullish
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Wu: Cognition recently acquired IDE tool Windsurf
“We've been going for the last year and a half, and most recently just acquired Windsurf, and so, you know, Devon, the agent in Windsurf, the IDE, but at a high level, you know, we really want to build the future of software engineering.”
Scott Wu Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 11:50 A Cheeky Pint with Cognition CEO Scott Wu
Aug 27, 2025 neutral
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Wu: Cognition reached out cold to Windsurf leadership on Friday evening
“We reached out to them cold that evening, and got to meet the new Windsurf leadership, you know, Jeff and Graham and David that evening.”
Scott Wu Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 47:51 A Cheeky Pint with Cognition CEO Scott Wu
Aug 27, 2025 neutral
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Wu: Google hired Windsurf's core research team while other functions remained intact
“There was a core kind of, like, research and product engineering team that went to Google, and the, all of the other functions were entirely intact, which includes enterprise engineering, infra, deployed engineering go to market, marketing, finance operations,…”
Scott Wu Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 50:10 A Cheeky Pint with Cognition CEO Scott Wu
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