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> 100% of Windsurf employees will participate financially in this deal > 100% of Windsurf employees will have vesting cliffs waived for their work to date > 100% of Windsurf employees will receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date This sounds like a happy ending for the employees of Windsurf and a good deal for Cognition
I'm not so sure. No telling what the purchase price was.
I was a bit confused as to what "Cognition" was, but they're the makers of Devin (edit: that just got added to the title, for reference), so that makes sense. Just buying the competition, the only surprise is they had more money to spend than the big ones.
“Had more money to spend” => it could be a little money and a large amount of stock.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> crazy valuations I haven't seen anything to indicate what was paid for what's left of Windsurf.
I was also referring to the $2.5B Google paid. I can’t imagine what could possibly be the value they’re hoping to get
I’m really confused now. Also, is there really that much of a transformative difference between Windsurf and say OpenAI/Claude etc to warrant this crazy valuations?
What's left ???.
The company was intact after key employees moved to Alphabet, and importantly there was a service contract to use Windsurf, so apparently Google will be paying Cognition, ultimately, now.
I wonder what the terms were there. Hard for me to imagine why Google would've included that in the deal.
Is this purely the rump company left over from the Google pseudo-acquistion? Or does this mean that deal fell through? Does this represent confirmation that there was no pro-rata compensation to common share holders in the Google deal? I just have so many questions .
And what is Google "paying $2.4 billion in license fees" to use Windsurf's technology for, and to who? Does Windsurf have any technology?
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