# Jeff Wang

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Jeff Wang, President of New Enterprise at Cognition and former interim CEO of Windsurf  
Cognition  
San Francisco, California, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: President, New Enterprise (Leadership)
- Joined: May 2023
- How they joined: With Windsurf (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/windsurf)
- Before Windsurf: Entrepreneur in Residence, Workplay Labs
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: Codeium (Windsurf); Salesforce (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefflinwang
- X: @jeffwang
- Website: https://jeffwang.substack.com/
- Domain: cognition.ai

## Notes
- Jeff Wang was Windsurf's Head of Business before stepping into the interim CEO role effective July 11, 2025, after Varun Mohan, Douglas Chen, and some R&D team members left to join Google. (https://devin.ai/blog/windsurfs-next-stage)
- He negotiated the Cognition acquisition over a single weekend, closing within roughly 72 hours: a first call after 5 p.m. Friday, a signed definitive agreement by Monday morning, and an announcement that afternoon. (https://latent.space/wiki/jeff-wang/)
- He is now President of New Enterprise at Cognition, the company behind Devin, described as the world's first cloud agent. (https://latent.space/wiki/jeff-wang/)
- In 2026 he was publicly launching and promoting Cognition products including Devin Desktop, Devin Oncall, Devin Security 2.0, Devin Fusion, FrontierCode 2.0, and Memory and Dreaming. (https://x.com/jeffwang/status/2113676288003334292)
- He joined Codeium (later renamed Windsurf) in May 2023. (https://www.nutanix.com/theforecastbynutanix/profile/codeiums-jeff-wang-on-the-future-of-ai-assisted-coding)
- He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2008 and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business in 2020. (https://www.haaspodcasts.org/episodes/onehaas/jeff-wang-mba-20-diving-deep-into-the-world-of-ai/)
- He spent roughly two years building Windsurf's entire go-to-market engine from scratch as Head of Business, which he described as 'nothing short of world class.' (https://yespress.io/jeff-wang)
- His first deal was $1,000, scaling to seven-figure contracts three to four months later, and he helped launch Codeium's paid cloud product and self-hosted AI platform, signing Dell, Anduril, and Clearwater. (https://thetownfc.com/experienced-entrepreneur-jeff-wang-joins-the-town-fc-investment-group/)
- He welcomed Corridor to the Cognition team in October 2026. (https://x.com/jeffwang/status/2115910946744918235)
- He has emphasized security repeatedly in 2026, saying companies are not taking security seriously enough and that 'we're entering a new era,' while shipping Devin Security 2.0 and open-sourcing an agent plugin to patch critical PHP, Node.js, and GitLab flaws. (https://x.com/jeffwang/status/2114744264982667343)
- He helped take Codeium to a $500M valuation within a year, following a $65M fundraise led by Kleiner Perkins and General Catalyst announced in early February 2024. (https://thetownfc.com/experienced-entrepreneur-jeff-wang-joins-the-town-fc-investment-group/)
- He had been part of Windsurf's journey since mid-2023, serving across many roles and capacities as the team expanded. (https://devin.ai/blog/windsurfs-next-stage)
- He and colleague Ancho ran 12-hour days booking one new customer conversation every 30 minutes, running 500+ customer conversations and A/B testing messaging in real time. (https://yespress.io/jeff-wang)
- His GTM team targeted companies using Bitbucket or GitLab, regulated industries, and organizations requiring on-premises deployment rather than GitHub Copilot's cloud-hosted enterprise focus. (https://yespress.io/jeff-wang)
- He and Scott Wu framed the combined team around a shared commitment: 'there's only one boat and we're all in it together,' and described Cognition's direction as a shift toward 'self-driving software development.' (https://latent.space/wiki/jeff-wang/)
- He began his career at Cisco and then Salesforce, where he was a Program Manager working on classifiers such as support ticket topic classification and sentiment while completing his MBA. (https://www.haaspodcasts.org/episodes/onehaas/jeff-wang-mba-20-diving-deep-into-the-world-of-ai/)
- He held executive roles at several startups, including Solutions Architect at Tonkean, VP of Product (Crypto) at TomoCredit, and Entrepreneur in Residence at Workplay Labs, an incubator led by Zynga founder Mark Pincus. (https://thetownfc.com/experienced-entrepreneur-jeff-wang-joins-the-town-fc-investment-group/)
- He co-founded RocketFuel Education, an education platform teaching the mechanics of crypto, AI, economics, and venture, and was host of Rich Dad Crypto, which has over 2M members on its platform. (https://www.haaspodcasts.org/episodes/onehaas/jeff-wang-mba-20-diving-deep-into-the-world-of-ai/)
- He is a General Partner at RNR Capital and an avid angel investor who contributed to the growth of multiple unicorns from their seed rounds. (https://thetownfc.com/experienced-entrepreneur-jeff-wang-joins-the-town-fc-investment-group/)
- He lost 8 pounds and got roughly three hours of sleep across the deal weekend, later saying he 'just didn't have time to panic' and focused relentlessly on finding a solution. (https://selinasstack.substack.com/p/jeff-wang-ceo-of-windsurf-m-and-a)
- Public headline says "President, New Enterprise at Cognition (Prev Windsurf CEO)". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefflinwang)
- He intentionally made himself replaceable at each stage, moving from marketing to finance to sales to solutions engineering to operations. (https://yespress.io/jeff-wang)
- He predicts the code market will grow from about $2 billion to $100 billion in two to three years, with 10x to 100x productivity gains as non-developers start contributing to software creation. (https://yespress.io/jeff-wang)
- He writes the Substack newsletter 'AI Relevance,' launched about four years before its late-2025 snapshot, covering monthly AI news and topics like 'Bubbles and Bubbles' and 'Investor vs. Founder.' (https://jeffwang.substack.com/)
- He joined The Town FC investment group in February 2024, citing the club's commitment to community engagement and player growth. (https://thetownfc.com/experienced-entrepreneur-jeff-wang-joins-the-town-fc-investment-group/)
- Experience in building apps, ops, and companies. Angel investor in multiple unicorns from seed round and avid crypto and AI enthusiast.

Follow me on Twitter at @jeffwang for my musings about AI and finance, my AI blog at https://jeffwang.substack.com/

If you’re using an AI agent or automated assistant to contact me, please disclose that clearly in your message; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefflinwang, https://jeffwang.substack.com/)
- Previous roles include Chief Executive Officer at Windsurf; Head of Business at Windsurf; General Partner at RNR Capital; Co-Founder and Host at RocketFuel Education; Entrepreneur in Residence at Workplay Labs; VP of Product at TomoCredit; Solutions Architect at Tonkean. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefflinwang)
- Education history includes Master of Business Administration - MBA, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business; BSE, Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefflinwang)
- Location is San Francisco, California, United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefflinwang)

## Experience
- President, New Enterprise at Cognition - San Francisco, California, United States (Jun 2026 - Present)
- Chief Executive Officer at Windsurf (Jul 2025 - Jun 2026)
- Head of Business at Windsurf - Mountain View, California, United States (Apr 2025 - Jul 2025)
- Head of Business at Windsurf - San Francisco Bay Area (May 2023 - Apr 2025)
- General Partner at RNR Capital - San Francisco Bay Area (Oct 2021 - Jun 2026)
- Co-Founder and Host at RocketFuel Education (Aug 2018 - Jan 2026): Created an education platform for cryptocurrencies, economics, AI, and VC 
Host of RocketFuel Crypto and Rich Dad Crypto, a weekly video and monthly newsletter of all things crypto
- Entrepreneur in Residence at Workplay Labs - San Francisco Bay Area (Jun 2022 - May 2023)
- VP of Product at TomoCredit - San Francisco Bay Area (Jan 2022 - Jun 2022): Ran product for Tomo to transition from a Series A to B company 
Set Web3 custodian, infrastructure, and roadmap for Tomo's platform
Created B2B and partnerships structure
Seed round investor
- Solutions Architect at Tonkean - San Francisco, California, United States (Apr 2020 - Jan 2022): Took company from pre-Series A to Series B in variety of roles
Pre and Post Sales technical consulting (implemented solutions with Blockchain.com, Lyft, Cornerstone, Instacart, and more)
Built and automated Sales, Marketing, Solutions stack internally with Tonkean
(Later acquired by Coupa)
- Program Manager at Salesforce - San Francisco Bay Area (Feb 2018 - Apr 2020): Work on an assortment of projects from Analytics, AI, Integrations, Automation, and Infrastructure at Salesforce
- Program Manager/Software Developer at Salesforce - San Francisco Bay Area (Feb 2017 - Feb 2018)
- Technical Program Manager at Salesforce - San Francisco Bay Area (Jun 2015 - Feb 2017)
- IT Service Delivery Associate Manager at salesforce.com - San Francisco Bay Area (Jun 2014 - Jun 2015): - Created and developed solution for automating Virtual Machine delivery using Apex, Force.com and vCenter. It includes mobile capabilities to order and approve on an iPhone, as well as checking data center capacity from your Apple Watch
- IT Project Manager, Infrastructure Provisioning at Cisco Systems - San Jose, California (Feb 2012 - Jun 2014): - Won an innovation contest to start a Team and create an end to end solution for requesting Infrastructure Services with features such as dynamic costing, tracking/reporting, notifications, shopping carts, and adaptive workflows using the Cisco Prime Catalog platform, while on-boarding 42 Infrastructure services from Customer Order to Infra Delivery.  Program grew from 2 people to 7 and reduced tools from 4 to 1.
- IT Project Manager, Demand Clearing at Cisco Systems (Feb 2010 - Feb 2012)
- Information Technology Infrastructure Engineer at Cisco Systems - San Jose, CA (Jun 2008 - Feb 2010)
- Electrical Engineer Intern at Continental Automotive Systems - Deerfield, IL (Apr 2006 - Jul 2006): Repair and assess Automotive Sensor Simulator, physically rearranging and soldering different analog circuits together for a fully functional device

## Education
- University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business - Master of Business Administration - MBA - (Jan 2017 - Jan 2020)
- University of Michigan - BSE, Electrical Engineering - (Jan 2004 - Jan 2008)

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefflinwang
- https://devin.ai/blog/windsurfs-next-stage
- https://productled.com/blog/how-jeff-wang-saved-windsurf-in-72-hours
- https://www.nutanix.com/theforecastbynutanix/profile/codeiums-jeff-wang-on-the-future-of-ai-assisted-coding
- https://www.haaspodcasts.org/episodes/onehaas/jeff-wang-mba-20-diving-deep-into-the-world-of-ai/
- https://thetownfc.com/experienced-entrepreneur-jeff-wang-joins-the-town-fc-investment-group/
- https://selinasstack.substack.com/p/jeff-wang-ceo-of-windsurf-m-and-a
- https://latent.space/wiki/jeff-wang/
- https://www.humanx.co/us/speakers/jeff-wang
- https://jeffwang.substack.com/
- https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/codeium/
- https://convergencedallas.ai/speaker/jeff-wang/
- https://yespress.io/jeff-wang
- https://x.com/jeffwang
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefflinwang?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAAIU70ABoq4f17O2Fls4IOq5yGVjaa1us0c
- https://x.com/jeffwang/status/2113676288003334292
- https://x.com/jeffwang/status/2115910946744918235
- https://x.com/jeffwang/status/2114744264982667343


Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-04. Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/jeff-wang · Everyone at Cognition: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people