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Re:OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B by pclmulqdq on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @10:07PM (#43911559)
As usual, HN misses the point. The customer list was probably worth about $2.99 billion, and the engineering work about $10 million.
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Re:OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B by mjirv on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @10:35PM (#43911695)
Is OpenAI having trouble acquiring enterprise customers?
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Re:OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B by mplewis on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @10:39PM (#43911715)
What makes you think $3B worth of customers were committed to Windsurf at all, much less in a sticky/exclusive way?
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Re:OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B by pqtyw on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @08:08AM (#43914640)
> customer list

How many customers do they have? At $30 per month it would take forever to pay off even with a lot of growth.

Open AI could release an equivalent VS Code clone and make it entirely free and it would still be a lot cheaper than $3 billion.

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