Wang: Other companies and VCs sought deals with Windsurf before Cognition merger
Jeff Wang · 🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R) · Jul 28, 2025 · at 3:35:38
Jeff Wang, CEO of Windsurf, discusses inbound interest from strategic buyers and venture capital firms during the weekend negotiations with Cognition.
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“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 talking about like, what are the companies actually missing from each other? And then also what are the product synergies as well?”
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