Can you tell us a bit about your background and how Windsurf began?

I graduated from MIT in 2017, then worked at Nuro on autonomous vehicles. In 2021 I co‑founded a company building GPU virtualization and compiler tech. We reached a couple million in revenue, but when GPT‑3.5 came out in 2022, we chose to pivot into AI coding tools first Kodium, then our own IDE, Windsurf.