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!
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