Navigating Launch Reactions and Future Product Development

Our second podcast guest ever in March 2023 was Varun Mohan, CEO of Codeium; at the time, they had around 10,000 users and how they vowed to keep their autocomplete free forever: Today, over a million developers use their products, they still have their free tier, and they recently launched Windsurf, an AI IDE.

Chapters

* 00:00:00: Introductions & Catchup

* 00:03:52: Why they created Windsurf

* 00:05:52: Limitations of VS Code

* 00:10:12: Evaluation methods for Cascade and Windsurf

* 00:16:15: Listener questions about Windsurf launch

* 00:20:30: Remote execution and security concerns

* 00:25:18: Evolution of Codeium's strategy

* 00:28:29: Cascade and its capabilities

* 00:33:12: Multi-agent systems

* 00:37:02: Areas of improvement for Windsurf

* 00:39:12: Building an enterprise-first company

* 00:42:01: Copilot for X, AI UX, and Enterprise AI blog posts