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Mohan: Windsurf was the first agentic IDE product on the market
“We were the first identic IDE product out there, right? That's what we landed with.”
Mohan: In-house code edit models outperform Anthropic on speed and context
“We have custom models that we built that are post trained on top of popular open source models that can make these edits really, really quickly to the code base. And the reason why you would want to do that is it's a faster and be also that model can actually …”
Mohan: Codeium pivoted overnight after raising $28 million
“We had already raised twenty eight million dollars of capital. And we were just like, Hey, we're just going to pivot entirely from this. And we did that overnight, right?”
Mohan: Windsurf aims to cannibalize its product every 6–12 months
“One of the goals that I tell everyone at our company is we should be cannibalizing the existing state of our product every six to 12 months. Every six to 12 months, it should make our existing product look silly. It should almost make the form factor of existi…”
Mohan: Codeium allows candidates to use AI coding tools in interviews
“We're okay with people using the tools because I think one of the worst things is like, if someone comes here and doesn't like using these tools, like we believe they're massive productivity improvements.”
Mohan: Candidates claiming they 'work smart' instead of hard are a red flag
“And I think one of the biggest dog whistles I sort of hear is when I ask people like, how hard are you willing to work? Some people actually ultimately say, Hey, I work very smart. And I basically asked them a question. If we have many smart people at our comp…”
Mohan: Windsurf collects tens of millions of user feedback signals hourly
“It's that actually every hour we get probably tens of millions of pieces of feedback from our users. We get a lot of feedback on what they like and what they don't like.”
Mohan: VS Code limitations forced Codeium to fork it and build Windsurf
“So VS Code, which is a very popular IDE, had a ceiling for the AI capabilities we could showcase our users. And because of that, we decided to go out and fork VS Code and build our own IDE with some of these new agentic capabilities”
Mohan: Underperformers damage companies by lowering team standards, not just productivity
“The thing about a person that is, is not pulling their weight, that's bad is not, it's not the productivity, right? At some point when the company becomes many hundreds of engineers, I'm not going to be thinking about the one engineer that's not pulling their …”
Mohan: Windsurf's 2025 engineering output will exceed all prior years combined
“This year, the total amount of engineering output we will have is much larger than the engineering output we've had since the beginning of the company's creation till now.”
Mohan: Codeium employs no pure product managers for core engineering
“One interesting decision that we kind of have for core engineering is that we don't have pure product managers for the core engineering side of the company. And by the way, that's purely because we build for developers and our product is, is built by developer…”
Mohan: Windsurf's retrieval and autocomplete models are built entirely in-house
“Interestingly, the one that does retrieval is actually completely pre-trained in house. That actually does that. But yeah, for a lot of different pieces, it's based on open source for interestingly, for the one that does that does the edits and autocomplete th…”
Mohan: Codeium's engineering pass rate is under 0.6% post-take-home
“Yeah, it's probably post or take home. It's probably that actually. So the take home itself filters probably another, you know, 10, 15 X on top of that.”
Mohan: Codeium reached $2M revenue and free cash flow with eight people
“And in the middle of two, two rolled around and we had a couple million in revenue that we were managing upwards of 10,000 sort of GPUs. We had eight people at the time we were free cashflow positive.”