$COGNITION · Cognition CEO Scott Wu reveals $500M ARR in <3 years, 11-12x customer usage growth

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Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition

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Cognition CEO Scott Wu reveals $500M ARR in <3 years, 11-12x customer usage growth

2026-07-27 · 5 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.

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“In less than 3 years, you got to 500 million in revenue. That's crazy. Half a billion in revenue in less than 3 years. Our customers in the last 6 months or so have also grown their usage something in the range of like 11 to 12x. We almost…”

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