Legal · Commercial Counsel

Jon Arnett

“Technology Counsel”

LinkedIn
Joined Cognition
Jul 2025
How they joined
With Windsurf
Before Windsurf
Extreme NetworksCommercial Counsel
Status
Current
Overlapped before Cognition
Sources1linkedin.com2techcrunch.com

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Researched with Autumn · 2026-11-04
Details
LocationSan Francisco Bay Area
Company sitewindsurf.com
UniversityThe University of Texas at Austin, University of Iowa
Commercial TransactionsSoftware LicensingData PrivacySales ProcessStrategic PartnershipsEmployment LawIntellectual PropertyHIPAATCPACommercial LitigationMergers & AcquisitionsReseller/VAR NetworksE-commerceDistributorsClass ActionsWage & HourTelecommunicationsData SecurityLitigationCanadian Privacy LawRetaliatory DischargeWrongful TerminationSubpoenasOBRPAeDiscoveryData Protection ActPIPEDACorporate GovernanceTrademarksDirect SalesGlobal Regulatory ComplianceInsurance LawContract NegotiationLicensingCommercial Contracts
Notes
  • Cognition signed a definitive agreement on 2025-07-14 to acquire Windsurf (the agentic IDE), including its IP, product, trademark, brand and team; the announcement cited $82M ARR and 350+ enterprise customers, the commercial book a commercial counsel would be supporting.Jul 14, 2025
  • Commercial Counsel at Windsurf (formerly Codeium) since Nov 2024, based in Mountain View; LinkedIn role description reads "Formerly Codeium; acquired by Google and Cognition AI".Nov 2024
  • Cognition's deal came days after Google hired Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen and research leaders in a $2.4B license-and-hire arrangement that left much of the ~250-person team behind; Arnett is among the staff who stayed and moved to Cognition.Jul 14, 2025
  • Posted on 2025-01-08: "Huge Codeium shout out from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at CES! Sellers, sales management, sales engineers, partner/channel folks: Do you want to join a top tier team at an AI company that will be one of Nvidia's and Anthropic's biggest workloads? DM me!" The counsel was recruiting for the sales team.Jan 8, 2025Huge Codeium shout out from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at CES! Sellers, sales management, sales engineers, partner/channel folks: Do you want to join a top tier team at an AI company that will be one of Nvidia's and Anthropic's biggest workloads?  DM me! https://lnkd.in/g8fnyptQ
  • Spent about 6.5 years at 8x8 (Aug 2016 to Apr 2023), going from Senior Corporate Counsel to Lead Counsel, Sales (Oct 2019) to Senior Director, Legal (Nov 2021).Aug 2016
  • Licensed as Jonathan Craig Arnett, California State Bar #255135, admitted 2008-02-07, status Active.Feb 7, 2008
  • Public headline says "Technology Counsel".
  • Commercial Counsel at Extreme Networks (San Jose), Mar 2024 to Nov 2024, his last role before joining Codeium.Mar 2024
  • Deputy General Counsel at Druva (Santa Clara), Apr 2023 to Nov 2023, his most senior title to date.Apr 2023
  • Worked at RingCentral (Belmont, CA) from Dec 2013 as Corporate Counsel and from Apr 2016 as Senior Corporate Counsel; with j2 Global and 8x8 that adds up to a decade in cloud communications/UCaaS before moving into AI software.Dec 2013
  • Corporate Counsel at j2 Global in Hollywood, CA, May 2012 to Dec 2013; it was his first in-house role.May 2012
  • Labor and Employment Associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, 2010 to 2012.2010

People they worked with before

Aakash MahalingamCodeium (Windsurf)Brian SmitchesCodeium (Windsurf)Chris DiazCodeium (Windsurf)Gina WangCodeium (Windsurf)Graham MorenoCodeium (Windsurf)Hannah Miller-JonesCodeium (Windsurf)Jacob AddingtonCodeium (Windsurf)Jeff WangCodeium (Windsurf)Jia WuCodeium (Windsurf)Marcel SchwagerCodeium (Windsurf)Mark JabbourCodeium (Windsurf)Matt BerglandCodeium (Windsurf)

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