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Re:OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is goin... by _jab on Friday July 11, 2025 @06:18PM (#44537326)
On the flipside, I’m pretty sure the investors got screwed.
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Re:OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is goin... by jonas21 on Friday July 11, 2025 @06:27PM (#44537396)
The investors made money too. The valuation at the last round was $1B, and Google paid them out at a valuation of $2.5B as part of the agreement [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/2/24212348/google-hires-char...

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Re:OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is goin... by blitzar on Saturday July 12, 2025 @03:00AM (#44539955)
2.5x in 10 months. With returns like that - if I were the full time chef of the investors spare private jet I would be updating my CV and looking for a new gig.
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Re:OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is goin... by a5seo on Saturday July 12, 2025 @08:35AM (#44541621)
That’s a deep burn.
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Re:OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is goin... by blitzar on Saturday July 12, 2025 @09:58AM (#44542121)
The full time masseuse should be able to help with that.
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Re:OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is goin... by jansan on Saturday July 12, 2025 @05:26AM (#44540610)
To quote an analyst from the Dotcom bubble era: "Everbody's happy, everybody's making money, something's wrong here"
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Re:OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is goin... by jonas21 on Saturday July 12, 2025 @06:06PM (#44545596)
This is how it's supposed to work. Nobody has to get screwed. It's not a zero-sum game.
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Re:OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is goin... by LilBytes on Friday July 11, 2025 @07:34PM (#44537895)
Hopefully. The world is healing.
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Re:OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is goin... by helloericsf on Friday July 11, 2025 @06:30PM (#44537426)
Honestly depends on when they got in. Seed investors? They're probably fine with their preferences. Series B and beyond? That's where it gets messy. What round you thinking?
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Re:OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is goin... by dilyevsky on Friday July 11, 2025 @08:03PM (#44538059)
It's literally the opposite - seed investors get paid last with the exception of common.
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