Varun Mohan, CEO of Indian-Origin, AI Startup Windsurf, faces will after leaving the company to join Deepmind Google and leave an agreement that could sell Openai for $ 3 billion.
His sudden East, together with the co -founder Douglas Chen, left Windsurf in the rig. Startup managed to ensure the acquisition at the last minute by another company AI, Cognition, after the weekend of frantic negotiations. The new CEO of Jeff Wang described the rescue as “fool”.
Risk capitalist Vinod Khosla sharply criticized Mohan and said he wouldn’t work with him again. “Windsurf and others are really bad examples of the founders who leave their teams behind and share the proceeds,” Khosla wrote on X.
The Cognition Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, also consisted and called on Mohan’s turn by violating the “unspoken contract” of the founder to remain in society in difficult times. On the social media, Mohan was marked by some users as a “generation villain”.
The user commented: “The founders who write while leaving the team are not just a bad form, it’s long -term reputation damage.”
Another user wrote about X: “Yes. It is very disappointing to see it. They probably thought it was the only way to have a meaningful departure, and hoped the rest of the company would benefit from” investment “. Unfortunately, people who stay behind are often those who hold the bag… equally with AI scale, as well as Windsurf. ”
“Money and strength always bring greed and selfishness,” wrote the third user on X.
The fourth wrote: “I agree. The founder lacked Cojones. Are you the 5 best companies on the trillion market. Go raise a big boy bike and go to war. Instead, you intimidate and shit to enrich and screw up all others?”
The fifth called him a generation villain: “Varun Mohan is a generation villain at this point .. Crazy Saga.
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