Mohan: Codeium's office housed Ghost Autonomy and 'Silicon Valley' exterior shoots
Varun Mohan · Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE · Dec 13, 2024 · at 1:00
Varun Mohan is co-founder and CEO of Codeium. He describes the history of Codeium's new Mountain View office near the Caltrain station.
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“It previously was being leased by, I think, Facebook slash WhatsApp. And then immediately after that Ghost Autonomy, and then now here we are, and we also, you know, I guess one of the things that the landlord told us was this was the place that they shot all the scenes for Silicon Valley, at least like externally and stuff like that, so that just became a meme.”
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