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How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains

2026-03-27 · 6 company · 7 thematic

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Scott Wu is a three-time International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) gold medalist and world champion at 17. He co-founded Cognition after working at Adapar, building Devin, the first autonomous AI programming agent. He leads a team of 450 engineers focused on enterprise and government AI agent deployments.

joe lonsdale

Joe Lonsdale hosts American Optimists. He co-founded Palantir Technologies and founded venture firm 8VC. He previously hired Scott Wu at an early company and references his experience building Palantir's forward-deployed engineer model and government technology partnerships.

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“Alexander Wang who started Scale... when he sold Scale obviously for like 16 billion to Facebook or whatever some funny structure but but he had huge success”

—scott wu

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