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

2026-07-27 · 6 company · 11 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.

molly o'shea

Host of Sourcery VC podcast, interviews founders and investors about wealth creation, private markets, and technology trends. Runs collaborative series with A16Z Perennial on wealth management.

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“Well, speaking on the backdrop of M&A with Curser and their deal, their $60 billion deal with SpaceX, M&A is floating around and there's all those kinds of like fun stories that are happening.”

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episode shorts · 11

Scott Wu on why the future of government depends on better soft…

Scott Wu on challenging Peter Thiel to settle a deal over poker

Scott Wu couldn’t sleep after seeing Devin work for the first t…

Scott Wu on the chaotic Saturday Cognition acquired Windsurf

Scott Wu on why Cognition let Windsurf and Devin merge graduall…

Scott Wu wanted to settle Cognition's seed deal with a poker ma…

Scott Wu on merging Cognition's 35-person team with Windsurf's…

Cognition CEO Scott Wu on why the "six months to singularity" c…

Scott Wu on why coding-agent usage went from zero to 12x in a y…

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

Scott Wu on the MongoDB bug that proved Devin could actually th…

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