Sales/GTM · Strategic Account Executive
Tyler McCormick
“Strategic Account Executive @ Cognition”
- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- SnowflakeMajor Account Executive
- Status
- Current
Overlapped before Cognition
“The new world of AI operates at a pace unlike any I've seen in my 2.5 decades in tech. … But a valuation doesn't change the work, and the drive continues at an exponential pace!”
Details
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Notes
- Posted about Cognition's raise of over $1B at a $26B valuation, verbatim: "The new world of AI operates at a pace unlike any I've seen in my 2.5 decades in tech. To go from product launch two years ago to a $26B valuation is mind-boggling to me, to say the least. But a valuation doesn't change the work, and the drive continues at an exponential pace! Onward!"May 28, 2026The new world of AI operates at a pace unlike any I've seen in my 2.5 decades in tech. To go from product launch two years ago to a $26B valuation is mind-boggling to me, to say the least. But a valuation doesn't change the work, and the drive continues at an exponential pace! O
- Graham Moreno (Windsurf sales leader) credited Tyler, Henry G. and Ben Jaderstrom with staying in the office until 10pm on the last day of the quarter to pull nearly $1M more over the line 'despite Tyler already being at the top of the leaderboard' during the acquisition quarter.Aug 4, 2025
- Strategic Account Executive at Cognition since Jul 2025 (Mountain View); his profile reports FY2026 at 303% of quota and FY2027 at 190% of quota at the half.Jul 2025
- Joined Windsurf (then branded Codeium) as Strategic Account Executive in Oct 2024; profile notes the company was 'Acquired by Cognition in July, 2025'.Oct 2024
- That same post says Windsurf did ~175% QoQ and 500% YoY growth that quarter with the top 3 sellers each over 200% of their annual number, putting Tyler at the top of a record quarter.Aug 4, 2025
- Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf on 2025-07-14, days after Google DeepMind hired Windsurf's CEO and research leads; Tyler's Windsurf role ended and Cognition role began the same month.Jul 14, 2025
- Major Account Executive at Snowflake Feb 2020-Jul 2024; profile claims he grew a single account from $2.5M to $17M+ per year and closed a $50M+ deal, the enterprise data-platform background he brought to AI coding sales.Feb 2020
- Was a member of the Windsurf sales pod 'Team Mavericks' with Anisa Edalati, Tony Clark, Julian Sheinbaum and Shannon Scheel, per Shannon Scheel's one-year Windsurf post.Sep 9, 2025
- On Cognition's funding/growth announcement he wrote, verbatim: "Always an exciting space! Happy to be part of this team!"Sep 8, 2025
- Named among new Codeium GTM hires in Graham Moreno's Q3 2024 wrap-up, a quarter in which Codeium announced its $150M Series C.Nov 7, 2024
- At salesforce.com 2009-2013: Account Executive in corporate sales, then Regional Sales Manager managing 10 AEs; his team was '#1 Team/RM across the entire North American segment in 2012 (out of 10 teams)' and he promoted 5 AEs.Nov 2011
- Public headline says "Strategic Account Executive @ Cognition".
Previous roleWindsurf (Codeium)
Experience
Strategic Account Executive at Cognition
Jul 2025 - Present
Mountain View, California, United States
FY2026 - 303% of quota FY2027 - 190% of quota at 1H
Strategic Account Executive at Windsurf
Oct 2024 - Jul 2025
Mountain View, California, United States
Acquired by Cognition in July, 2025.
Major Account Executive at Snowflake
Feb 2020 - Jul 2024
San Jose, CA
Grew single account from $2.5M to $17M+ per year Closed $50M+ deal
Sr. Strategic Account Executive at MongoDB
Jul 2017 - Feb 2020
San Francisco Bay Area
Exceeded quota all three EOY closes
Enterprise Sales Executive at Dropbox
Jan 2016 - Jul 2017
San jose
225% quota attainment in FY2016.
Application Sales Manager, Enterprise Sales at Oracle
Jan 2014 - Jul 2015
United States
Regional Sales Manager at salesforce.com
Nov 2011 - Jun 2013
#1 Team/RM across the entire North American segment in 2012 (out of 10 teams) Managed and guided a team of 10 account executives Promoted 5 AEs in 2012 up the ranks Constant and consistent interviewing and hiring to achieve massive company growth goals
Account Executive at salesforce.com
Jun 2009 - Nov 2011
Account Executive selling cloud computing solutions for salesforce.com's corporate sales group. Currently working an Illinois and Wisconsin based territory.
Education
UCLA
Bachelors, Economics w/ a Specialization in Computing
AchievementsFY2026 303% of quota at Cognition · Top of Windsurf leaderboard in acquisition quarter (Q2 2025) · Grew a Snowflake account from $2.5M to $17M+/yr; closed $50M+ deal · 225% quota FY2016 at Dropbox · #1 North American team at salesforce.com 2012
Recent posts
May 2026
The new world of AI operates at a pace unlike any I've seen in my 2.5 decades in tech. To go from product launch two years ago to a $26B valuation is mind-boggling to me, to say the least. But a valuation doesn't change the work, and the drive continues at an exponential pace! O
Press
Profiles
Network
ConnectionsGraham Moreno (Windsurf sales leader) · Henry G. · Ben Jaderstrom · Shannon Scheel · Anisa Edalati · Tony Clark · Julian Sheinbaum · Arjun Mishra
