Jeff Wang

Team Member, Windsurf · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jeff Wang is associated with Windsurf, formerly known as Exafunction and Codeium. He discusses the company's evolution and future alongside Cognition.

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Everything Jeff Wang said on Latent Space that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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Wang: Windsurf employees received 10 to 12 poaching emails during merger weekend
“And I don't think it was reported, but like time was not our friend. We had customers like starting to email like, Hey, what's the, what's going to happen to the company. And we had recruiters. I think almost every employee probably got like 10 or 12 recruitin…”
Jeff Wang Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 3:38:34 🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
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Wang: Other companies and VCs sought deals with Windsurf before Cognition merger
“When Scott, when I talked to Scott, it was just like, Hey, this kind of makes sense. Like there was other companies. That were interested. There was actually VCs that wanted to invest. But Scott, as a person with Russell, and then I was with Graham just talkin…”
Jeff Wang Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 3:35:38 🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
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Wang: Prior to merger, Devin was building an IDE and Windsurf an agent
“We actually looked at each other's roadmaps, like product roadmaps and the Devon team was actually looking to build an ID and our team was actually looking to build a remote agent.”
Jeff Wang Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 3:44:33 🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)

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🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul Jul 28, 2025 3m
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