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Re:OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B by ignoramous on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @09:58PM (#43911524)
Bubble or not, given the exit, Windsurf's (Codeium) focus on enterprise sales motion has been rewarded rather handsomely: https://research.contrary.com/company/windsurf / mirror: https://archive.vn/ThWNz
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Re:OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B by alexchantavy on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @10:14PM (#43911597)
Yeah, in the recent Lightcone Podcast episode, Varun was talking about how they have a lean eng team but large sales org. I thought that was super interesting for a dev tool since I was expecting a dev tool to involve bottom-up sales to the dev instead of top-down sales to a leader like a CTO or VP of Eng
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Re:OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B by conartist6 on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @02:50AM (#43912901)
It will be super interesting to see how they do against the inverse: an engineering-focused company that wants to win devs from the bottom up
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Re:OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B by alexchantavy on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @10:36AM (#43916283)
100%. You're referring to Cursor?
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Re:OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B by tracerbulletx on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @03:35PM (#43919792)
thats how you spend a lot of time making something great that no one pays for and everyone demonizes you if you even try
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