Travis Myers
“GTM @ Cognition | Empowering Human Brilliance Through Agentic Reasoning”
- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- MotiveGTM
- Status
- Current
- Promoted to Account Director on Cognition's Emerging Enterprise team, posting: "Excited to share that I've been promoted to Account Director on the Emerging Enterprise team at Cognition!" Under a year after the acquisition.May 12, 2026Excited to share that I've been promoted to Account Director on the Emerging Enterprise team at Cognition! Massive thank you to those that helped along the way - my leadership team, teammates, and mentors. What we're building is genuinely changing how teams ship software. Getting to be part of that every day and helping enterprises tackle their biggest technical challenges fires me up. Couldn't be more grateful to do it with this team. Excited for what's to come. Let's keep building the future of software engineering 🚀
- Posted Cognition's September 2026 recap verbatim: "We just had our biggest month ever. Here's what 30 days at Cognition looked like." listing a $1B run rate, a $2B+ Series E at a $48B valuation, a São Paulo office, Chris Degnan as CRO and Alex Stamos as CISO, SWE-2, Devin on macOS, Fusion and Devin in Microsoft Teams.Oct 2, 2026We just had our biggest month ever. Here's what 30 days at Cognition looked like. In September, we: → Crossed a $1B run rate → Raised over $2B at a $48B valuation (Series E) → Opened our first Latin America office, in São Paulo → Welcomed Chris Degnan as CRO and Alex Stamos as CISO (2 legends in their respective fields) → Shipped SWE-2, our most advanced model yet: top performance at 60%+ lower cost → Launched Devin on macOS, so it can now build and test native iOS and Mac apps → Made Devin up to 40% more cost-efficient with Fusion → Brought Devin into Microsoft Teams, so you can tag it like any other coworker None of this happens by chance. The focus here is clear. We are building the future of software engineering. Our customers trusted us early and push us hard. Your feedback is in every one of these launches. My favorite part? We celebrated for a minute. Then went right back to the question we ask every day: how do we help our customers ship more? Milestones are nice. Customers are the point. On to October.
- Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the agentic IDE, on 2025-07-14, including its IP, product, brand and people; his LinkedIn shows the Windsurf GTM role ending Jul 2025 with the note 'Windsurf acquired by Cognition Labs' and a Cognition GTM role starting the same month.Jul 14, 2025
- Joined the GTM team at Windsurf (formerly Codeium) in April 2025, announcing: "Thrilled to share that I've joined the GTM team at Windsurf (formerly Codeium)!" He arrived roughly three months before the Cognition deal.Apr 10, 2025
- In the same post he wrote: "None of this happens by chance. The focus here is clear. We are building the future of software engineering." and "Our customers trusted us early and push us hard. Your feedback is in every one of these launches."Oct 2, 2026We just had our biggest month ever. Here's what 30 days at Cognition looked like. In September, we: → Crossed a $1B run rate → Raised over $2B at a $48B valuation (Series E) → Opened our first Latin America office, in São Paulo → Welcomed Chris Degnan as CRO and Alex Stamos as CISO (2 legends in their respective fields) → Shipped SWE-2, our most advanced model yet: top performance at 60%+ lower cost → Launched Devin on macOS, so it can now build and test native iOS and Mac apps → Made Devin up to 40% more cost-efficient with Fusion → Brought Devin into Microsoft Teams, so you can tag it like any other coworker None of this happens by chance. The focus here is clear. We are building the future of software engineering. Our customers trusted us early and push us hard. Your feedback is in every one of these launches. My favorite part? We celebrated for a minute. Then went right back to the question we ask every day: how do we help our customers ship more? Milestones are nice. Customers are the point. On to October.
- Posted: "Cognition's top 50 customers beat the S&P 500 by 24 points in the last year." arguing "It's not about how broadly you deploy. It's about where you aim." This customer-ROI framing (migrations, test coverage, backlog) is the enterprise sales pitch he carries as an Account Director.Jul 28, 2026Cognition's top 50 customers beat the S&P 500 by 24 points in the last year. The 40 publicly listed companies among our top 50 customers returned +40.7% over the past 12 months. The S&P 500 returned +16.4%. We've noticed a pattern in the companies pulling ahead. They didn't adopt AI because everyone else was. Adoption isn't the edge anymore. 92% of the S&P 500 already uses a frontier model in some form (Cognition, OpenAI, Anthropic). The companies seeing real returns did something different. They pointed AI straight at their biggest technical challenges. The gnarly migration no one wanted to own. The test coverage gap. The backlog that had been "next quarter" for three years. They didn't run experiments to look innovative. They put AI on the problems where the ROI was undeniable, and they proved it in production. It's not about how broadly you deploy. It's about where you aim.
- In the promotion post he wrote: "What we're building is genuinely changing how teams ship software. Getting to be part of that every day and helping enterprises tackle their biggest technical challenges fires me up."May 12, 2026Excited to share that I've been promoted to Account Director on the Emerging Enterprise team at Cognition! Massive thank you to those that helped along the way - my leadership team, teammates, and mentors. What we're building is genuinely changing how teams ship software. Getting to be part of that every day and helping enterprises tackle their biggest technical challenges fires me up. Couldn't be more grateful to do it with this team. Excited for what's to come. Let's keep building the future of software engineering 🚀
- Live Odds Trader & Analyst at Simplebet (Jul 2022 to Apr 2023), working on a live-odds trading desk alongside the machine learning engineering team to improve pricing models and with the Customer Analytics and Games teams on personalization; this is his earliest hands-on exposure to ML-driven products.Jul 2022
- Before Windsurf he was in GTM at Motive (fleet management software) in Austin from Nov 2024 to Apr 2025, his first move from sports betting into B2B SaaS sales.Nov 2024
- Sportsbook Analyst, Risk & Account Manager at Sportnco (a GiG company), Apr 2023 to Nov 2024, monitoring bettor accounts and compliance across 19 operators in 8 countries for a US client; the account-management side of that role connects to his later GTM career.Apr 2023
- Public headline says "GTM @ Cognition | Empowering Human Brilliance Through Agentic Reasoning".
- Reposts Cognition enterprise partnership news, including Mercedes-Benz adopting Devin and Windsurf (up to 25% faster delivery), Cognizant's Devin/Windsurf partnership and the Devin 2.2 launch.Apr 27, 2026
Windsurf acquired by Cognition Labs
▪ Monitor and identify bettor accounts using data analysis, pattern recognition, and user behavior recognition. ▪ Oversee our strategies, offering, and results to ensure the success of our US client. ▪ Monitor compliance across 19 operators in 8 countries each with different compliance laws. ▪ Ensure compliance with industry regulations and internal policies, maintaining high standards of integrity. ▪ Implement risk management strategies to mitigate exposure and maximize profitability. ▪ Discussion and application of customers marketing strategy
▪ Analyzing pricing and trading performance while working closely with machine learning engineering team to enhance models ▪ Monitor all pricing for real-time odds and ensuring that data flows from data collections partners are being recorded accurately ▪ Analyzing and monitoring risk in accordance with Simplebet risk management procedures ▪ Enhancing customer experience with real-time support, communicating effectively with both internal and external partners regarding any feed issues or market mechanics ▪ Building out customer risk profiles and working with Customer Analytics and Games team to enhance personalization
▪ As the owner of Honest Bars I encompassed all responsibilities of the company from customer relationships, data analysis, market research, and all financial responsibilities. ▪ Manage client accounts and sales ranging from individual customers to larger vendor accounts with reoccurring orders.
We just had our biggest month ever. Here's what 30 days at Cognition looked like. In September, we: → Crossed a $1B run rate → Raised over $2B at a $48B valuation (Series E) → Opened our first Latin America office, in São Paulo → Welcomed Chris Degnan as CRO and Alex Stamos as CISO (2 legends in their respective fields) → Shipped SWE-2, our most advanced model yet: top performance at 60%+ lower cost → Launched Devin on macOS, so it can now build and test native iOS and Mac apps → Made Devin up to 40% more cost-efficient with Fusion → Brought Devin into Microsoft Teams, so you can tag it like any other coworker None of this happens by chance. The focus here is clear. We are building the future of software engineering. Our customers trusted us early and push us hard. Your feedback is in every one of these launches. My favorite part? We celebrated for a minute. Then went right back to the question we ask every day: how do we help our customers ship more? Milestones are nice. Customers are the point. On to October.
Cognition's top 50 customers beat the S&P 500 by 24 points in the last year. The 40 publicly listed companies among our top 50 customers returned +40.7% over the past 12 months. The S&P 500 returned +16.4%. We've noticed a pattern in the companies pulling ahead. They didn't adopt AI because everyone else was. Adoption isn't the edge anymore. 92% of the S&P 500 already uses a frontier model in some form (Cognition, OpenAI, Anthropic). The companies seeing real returns did something different. They pointed AI straight at their biggest technical challenges. The gnarly migration no one wanted to own. The test coverage gap. The backlog that had been "next quarter" for three years. They didn't run experiments to look innovative. They put AI on the problems where the ROI was undeniable, and they proved it in production. It's not about how broadly you deploy. It's about where you aim.
Excited to share that I've been promoted to Account Director on the Emerging Enterprise team at Cognition! Massive thank you to those that helped along the way - my leadership team, teammates, and mentors. What we're building is genuinely changing how teams ship software. Getting to be part of that every day and helping enterprises tackle their biggest technical challenges fires me up. Couldn't be more grateful to do it with this team. Excited for what's to come. Let's keep building the future of software engineering 🚀
