- Joined
- Apr 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- PromptLayerFounder & CEO
- Status
- Current
“We did the math and there are over 130 ex-founders employed at Cognition. That's over 25% of our entire company! This is hard to believe for two reasons 1. Former founders are often unemployable 2. Former founders are are even harder to keep happy But if you do it right these ex-founders are the highest-agency people you can ever hire”
- Details Cognition's hiring philosophy and the unusually high concentration of ex-founders, revealing company culture and growth. Quote: "We did the math and there are over 130 ex-founders employed at Cognition. That's over 25% of our entire company!"Oct 20, 2026We did the math and there are over 130 ex-founders employed at Cognition. That's over 25% of our entire company! This is hard to believe for two reasons 1. Former founders are often unemployable 2. Former founders are are even harder to keep happy But if you do it right these
- Jared Zoneraich is the cofounder and CEO of PromptLayer, described as a platform designed to streamline prompt engineering workflows for teams.Nov 13, 2024
- Explains Cognition's early access to Devin as a competitive advantage and links to a conversation about building Devin. Quote: "We were the first company with access to Devin"Oct 6, 2026There's one really huge unfair advantage that we have at Cognition We were the first company with access to Devin Here's a conversation I had with @jasonhand about how Devin helps us build Devin https://t.co/BhBDMNF1ic
- Jared Zoneraich posted on X as @imjaredz that Devin had cracked three more unsolved problems, writing "Proud to say that Devin has cracked three more unsolved problems today."Jul 23, 2026
- Jared Zoneraich is the CEO and Co-founder of PromptLayer.Mar 2, 2026
- In 2026, Jared Zoneraich joined Cognition to work on Devin, remaining a PromptLayer adviser as Jonathan Pedoeem became chief executive.2026
- Jared Zoneraich is the Founder & CEO of PromptLayer, described as "the workbench for AI engineering."Dec 26, 2025
- Jared Zoneraich is a co-founder of PromptLayer.Feb 9, 2025
- Jared Zoneraich is a co-founder of New York-based PromptLayer, which launched a tool to help app developers manage the prompting process around two years before February 2025.Feb 7, 2025
- Jared Zoneraich co-founded PromptLayer, which he says was built by accident: "We built PromptLayer by accident."Dec 2022
- Jared Zoneraich was Founder & CEO of PromptLayer from 2021 to 2026, where he "Built the first developer platform for prompt engineering."2021
- Jared Zoneraich works at Cognition on New Projects, "Building Devin — the first AI software engineer."
The National Design Studio was created by Executive Order 14338
Building Devin
Built the first developer platform for prompt engineering. Raised $5M+ from great investors. Grew to $1M ARR and a team of 15.
Acquired by Databricks. Front-end, infrastructure, developer monitoring tools. 9th engineer.
Front-end. Civic Integrity Team
Built honeypots and behavioral malware simulations.
Built "Closure Deps Profiler" for lazy-loading and dependency trimming (Language Platforms department)
We did the math and there are over 130 ex-founders employed at Cognition. That's over 25% of our entire company! This is hard to believe for two reasons 1. Former founders are often unemployable 2. Former founders are are even harder to keep happy But if you do it right these
Excited to welcome the one and only Jacob Reses to the @cognition family. Jacob was most recently Chief of Staff to Vice President JD Vance. This should say something about how important superintelligence and cybersecurity are to our current moment. More than anyone else, Jacob
There's one really huge unfair advantage that we have at Cognition We were the first company with access to Devin Here's a conversation I had with @jasonhand about how Devin helps us build Devin https://t.co/BhBDMNF1ic
@shandspickett @cognition @JacobReses Cog nation!!
Excited to welcome the one and only Jacob Reses to the @cognition family. Jacob was most recently Chief of Staff to Vice President JD Vance. This should say something about how important superintelligence and cybersecurity are to our current moment. More than anyone else, Jacob understands the need for nation states to build a technology advantage. The only way to ensure America and her allies r
Excited to welcome the one and only Jacob Reses to the Cognition family. Jacob was most recently Chief of Staff to Vice President JD Vance. This is how important superintelligence and cybersecurity are to our current moment. More than anyone else, Jacob understands the need for nation states to build a technology advantage. The only way to ensure America and her allies remain safe from agentic c
@cognition @corridor Let's go!!!
@cognition @mercor Cloud agents are how the fastest growing companies scale
@ryancarson @DevinAI @cognition @HelloUntangle Thanks for coming Ryan great to finally meet in person
@cognition This really challenged my previous assumption that most of the frontier models were roughly interchangeable..
One of my favorite things about this job is hosting Devin Dinners with cool engineers and startups Let me know if you want to be added to the next one in NY or SF
Introducing FrontierCode 2.0. The second generation of our home built coding model benchmark. As you can see, there are real differences in frontier model families from each lab and we still have a lot of room to improve. FrontierCode is unique because it judges code on quality
linkedin.com/posts/imjaredz_introducing-frontiercode-20-the-second-activity-7520906892244627457-3-iznoted
