Days after starting AI Windsurf encoding got to x offer more details about drama and uncertainty about the deal.
Windsurf has previously reported that he was in talks from Openai, but this deal fell, with Google Deepmind hiring the CEO of the Barun Mohan, co -founder Douglas Chen and some of his leading researchers. Google will reportedly allow Windsurf technology as part of the $ 2.4 billion agreement – but does not receive a share capital in the company.
This looked like the latest trend of the “reverse quots”, in which large technology companies seek to avoid antitrust control by hiring basic start -up members and licensing their technology, rather than gaining newly established businesses.
But what about the newly established companies and employees who are left behind? As we discussed the latest episode of the same capital, a starting founder compared Windsurf executives in a captain who left his crew on a wreck.
Wang, who was head of Windsurf’s business, became the temporary chief executive of the company after Mohan’s departure. In his place in X, he offered some sympathy to Mohan and Chen, who described as “great founders” in a situation that “should have been difficult for them too”.
Still, Wang talked about a meeting of all hands on Friday, June 11, where most team members are waiting to hear about the acquisition of Openai. Instead, he had to share the news about the Google Agreement and departures.
“The mood was very gloomy,” Wang said. “Some people were upset about the financial results or colleagues who left, while others were worried about the future. Few were on tears and Q&A was understandable hostile.”
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In Wang’s view, although the company “had lost some great people and got a serious blow to the moral”, it still had “all our IPs, product and strong talent, including an excellent [go-to-market] machine. So Windsurf could still try to raise more money, sell or just continue.
That night, however, Wang heard from Scott Wu and Russell Kaplan knowledge executives and said Windsurf’s leadership “took the knowledge approach very seriously and began the negotiations”. In his narration, what followed was a frantic weekend of discussion with knowledge, while examining an incoming interest from other potential buyers and a meeting with other Windsurf engineers to persuade them not to leave. (And as all this was done, “the timetable explodes with mimics and comments.”)
The two companies are a good application, Wang has partially supported because of complementary teams.
“While [Cognition] They had excessive engineering, had sincerely degraded GTM and marketing, and our teams in these functions are nothing less than the world order, “he said.
In addition, Wang said that Wu (depicted together above) aligned with the need to “take care of all Windsurf officials”.
“This led to a key part of the deal: its structure to give a payment to every employee, to give up all the rocks and to accelerate all the registration for Windsurf equality,” he said.
The acquisition agreement was apparently signed at 9:30 am On Monday morning, it was announced to the team a little later in other hands and then announced to the public shortly afterwards.
In An interview with BloombergWang described that everything on Friday’s hands as “probably the worst day of the 250 people’s life” followed Monday by “probably the best day”.
