Stepan
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Stepan
@stepanhilbert
Building the anti-TikTok: https://t.co/lYFicx6kIZ Co-founded https://t.co/PWbhkihl78 Let's leave this world better than we found it 🌍









My conversation with @ScottWu46, founder and CEO of @Cognition, the company behind Devin, the first AI software engineer. 0:00 Scott Wu's Obsession With Winning 2:06 Competitive Programming, Games And Finding His People 4:24 Family, Go, And The Roots Of Scott's Competitiveness 8:35 Why Losing Hurts More Than Winning Feels Good 9:38 What Winning With Devin Looks Like 12:55 Devin Today: The AI Software Engineer 13:52 Software As The Human-Computer Interface 18:45 Why AI Progress Is Hard To Intuit 20:39 Thinking About AI From First Principles 22:57 What Happens When Agents Can Work For Months 30:18 The Original Thesis Behind Cognition 31:12 Launching Devin And Handling Criticism 37:17 Finding Product-Market Fit In The Enterprise 42:41 How Cognition Deploys Devin Inside Large Companies 48:34 Measuring ROI Instead Of Token Spend 50:01 Why Cognition Wants To Be Model-Neutral 52:18 Why Focus Lets Startups Beat Giants 57:14 Independence, Acquisitions, And Building A Generational Company 1:00:27 Why Money Is Not The Goal 1:03:42 One Life: Going For It All Includes paid partnerships.












Great explanation of one of the biggest issues in Europe and why they can't build startups is they can't recruit early talent and compete with American startups by paying them stock options because the taxing of them means it makes no sense to take European stock options so you better take the American startup offer (or the European startup just incorporates in America)!










