Scott Wu compares building a company to a tree search algorithm
Scott Wu · The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu · Jun 28, 2026 · at 0:57
Cognition CEO Scott Wu explains to David Senra how his lifelong competitive gaming mindset translates directly into company building.
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“It's the way even building a company, it feels the same. It's just like you're calculating the moves. You're thinking about, okay, if you do this and then this happens and then you do that and here are the different moves and you're like calculating out what comes out to success. You know, it's like a tree search, you know, where you're exploring the different options in the decision tree and you're trying to figure out how to lead to victory.”
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