A Windsurf AI Engineer Says Google Gave Him a Job Offer that Would 'Explode Same day.' He Ultimately Went a 'Different direction.'

A Windsurf AI engineer says Google gave him a job offer that would 'explode same day.' He ultimately went a 'different direction.'

Varun Mohan is the founder of Windsurf, which made an unusual deal with Google after talks with OpenAI fell apart.Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe competition over AI talent in Silicon Valley shows no signs of slowing down.A software engineer at Windsurf said Google approached him with a "same day" exploding offer.The engineer ultimately ended up at Congition, Windsurf's former competitor that acquired th…

Google paid $2.4 billion for Windsurf and kept the wrong parts \ stacker news ~AI

Google paid $2.4 billion for Windsurf and kept the wrong parts. 💰 They got the CEO, a handful of senior engineers, and a license to the technology. The 200+ people who actually built and maintained the product? They got nothing. Not even accelerated vesting. Three days later, Cognition bought what was left. But here’s the interesting part: they structured it so every employee gets paid. Waived cliffs, accelerated equity, same treatment for the …