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the road from windsurf to devin desktop is something to be studied and a case study on that whole year would be amazing. 73m to 500m is not an accident. Taking devin and making devin desktop from windsurf was the best decision and I feel already this product will have an amazing growth trajectory. Building using cloud agents is going to be the next big thing and Cognition is already miles ahead. Wishing you nothing but luck and success on the next months of the journey 😎🫡
10:28 AM · Jul 14, 2026@ScottWu46 going from 73m to over 500m in a year is absolutely unreal execution. congrats.
2:36 PM · Jul 14, 2026@ScottWu46 20M+ lines and $500M run rate in one year is absolutely insane. What a ride 👊
1:00 PM · Jul 14, 2026@ScottWu46 shame on windsurf original founder, turning back on their own team
3:01 PM · Jul 14, 2026View all
One year ago today, Cognition acquired Windsurf, capping off one of the crazier weekends in our company's history. The outline has been told many times: the first call on Friday evening, the rush through Saturday and Sunday to figure out the plan together, and then the signed agreement by Monday morning. On the Cognition side, we knew we had to move fast — Windsurf had millions of users, a brand developers loved, and a great team. We printed an LOI and headed to their offices on Saturday morning ready to sign on the spot. When we got in a room with Jeff and Graham, things clicked: they had built one of the best GTM orgs in Silicon Valley and needed engineering; we had the engineering org that needed GTM. They were building an IDE, we were building a cloud agent. Everything lined up. When we welcomed the team, we said “there's only one boat and we're all in it together.” Then we got to work. Three days after close, we shipped Wave 11: "Just Keep Shipping" – and that set the tone for everything to come. In the year since, we’ve launched our own models (including SWE1.7 just last week), Devin Review, Devin CLI, and unified everything into one brand with Devin Desktop. Along the way our team wrote 20M+ lines of code and grew revenue run rate from $73M to >$500M. Thankful for the last year and excited to keep building the future of software engineering together!
10:09 AM · Jul 14, 2026