Why this AI CEO wants his startup to cannibalize its own product every 6 to 12 months

Why this AI CEO wants his startup to cannibalize its own product every 6 to 12 months

For some tech founders, building a product so good it lasts forever might sound like the dream. Windsurf’s CEO and cofounder, Varun Mohan, wants his AI startup to regularly blow up its product.

“We should be cannibalizing the existing state of our product every six to 12 months,” he said on an episode of “Lenny’s Podcast” published Sunday. “It should almost make the form factor of the existing product look dumb.”

Windsurf, formerly known as Codeium, builds AI tools…

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