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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

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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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.

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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AI coding agents hit inflection: 7x code output, 11-12x customer usage growth in 6 months
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AI Coding Agentstailwindscore 9/10scott wu
AI coding agent category seeing 7-12x usage growth in six months
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AI Geopolitics & Export Controlstailwindscore 7/10scott wu
Cognition targets government software as massive opportunity and engages in AI policy to prevent corporate concentration
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Government Technologytailwindscore 7/10scott wu
Government software modernization represents massive AI coding agent opportunity
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Enterprise AI Adoptiontailwindscore 8/10scott wu
Enterprises demand model-neutral independent AI vendors for long-term partnerships
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Enterprise AI Adoptiontailwindscore 8/10scott wu
Enterprises prefer third-party AI coding platforms over lab-native tools for model flexibility and organizational transformation
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AI Economics & Business Modelstailwindscore 8/10scott wu
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