Sales/GTM · VP Enterprise

David Morse

“Cognition AI - VP Enterprise”

Joined
Oct 2024
How they joined
Directly
Before Cognition
Hebbia AIChief Revenue Officer (CRO)
Status
Current
Overlapped before Cognition

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Details
LocationSan Francisco Bay Area
Company sitecognition.ai
LanguagesEnglish, Spanish
UniversityNorthwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Dartmouth College
StrategyManagement ConsultingBusiness StrategyLeadershipStrategic PlanningSustainabilityFinancial ModelingProject ManagementChange ManagementBusiness Process ImprovementEnergyBusiness PlanningOrganizational DesignFinancial AnalysisBusiness TransformationStrategic PartnershipsInnovation ManagementProject Portfolio ManagementManagement
Notes
  • On Cognition's raise he wrote, verbatim: "Is $26B post-money a crazy low valuation for Cognition at $492M run rate revenue? Enterprise consumption and revenue growth continues to accelerate month over month. Much of that growth comes from existing customers doubling down." - publicly tying the valuation to enterprise expansion revenue, which is his remit.Jun 2, 2026
  • Joined Cognition as VP Enterprise in October 2024, after a short stint (from June 2024) advising enterprise AI startups at all stages of growth; he leads Cognition's enterprise go-to-market for Devin and, after the July 2025 Windsurf acquisition, Windsurf/Devin Desktop.Oct 2024
  • Wrote, verbatim: "When I joined Cognition two years ago Scott Wu saw the power of being an independent Agent Lab building on all the frontier models. This has been and will be an advantage for us and our customers." This multi-model 'independent Agent Lab' line is his core enterprise pitch.May 19, 2026Why would Anthropic feature our CEO and Founder Scott Wu in their ad campaign? Aren't we direct competitors? When I joined Cognition two years ago Scott Wu saw the power of being an independent Agent Lab building on all the frontier models. This has been and will be an advantage for us and our customers. We have a great AI research partnership with Anthropic and we're a happy customer. The same with OpenAI and Google. The teams across all these AI companies know each other and stay in touch. AI for software engineering is the fastest moving and fastest growing market in the history of techno
  • At Hebbia AI (Oct 2022 - May 2024) he was Chief Revenue Officer reporting to the CEO, taking the company from Series A to a $130M Series B at a $700M valuation, growing ARR from $0 in under four quarters and building a 30-person team of enterprise AEs, RevOps, engagement managers and federal sales & delivery.Oct 2022
  • Was employee #25 at Scale AI (May 2018 - Oct 2022), where he founded the Customer Operations and Engagement Management team that drove delivery for leading AI teams.May 2018
  • Quoted in Microsoft's Cognition/Azure customer story as 'Cognition VP of Enterprise': "At Cognition we love working with partners like Visma and Microsoft who provide the expertise and tools to accelerate value from Devin. Devin only gets better when combined with great humans and access to tools like Copilot and Azure." - he drove the Azure co-sell and marketplace motion that brought Devin into enterprise accounts like Visma.
  • Credited Citi and Tim Ryan with helping Cognition 'pioneer agentic deployments at scale over the last few years', marking Citi as a long-running anchor account.Oct 9, 2026
  • Noted Jeff Wang, CEO of Windsurf (the company Cognition acquired), has been working closely on Cognition's OpenAI partnership, and that Cognition is 'a happy OpenAI customer and a close research partner' - showing post-acquisition Windsurf leadership embedded in enterprise/partner work.Jun 2, 2026
  • Positions Cognition as first into cloud agent production deployments, naming customers Goldman Sachs and Mercedes-Benz.May 11, 2026
  • As VP/GM Sales and Ops at Scale AI (Dec 2020 - Oct 2022) he managed AEs, SEs and CSMs for the core business as it grew from $40M to $100M, and pivoted the computer-vision business from VC-backed self-driving companies to Fortune 500 customers such as GM, Stellantis and Caterpillar.Dec 2020
  • Promoted Cognition's cloud-agents report arguing from install-base data that 'Devin AI gets more efficient at scale'.Aug 30, 2026
  • Sponsored a Slack collaboration (thanking Parker Harris, Marc Benioff, Jaime DeLanghe) where a persistent Devin agent triages alerts in Slack and dispatches other Devin agents or humans.Aug 13, 2026

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