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More details emerge on how Windsurf’s VCs and founders got paid from the Google deal
VCs and founders took much of the $2.4B, but money was left for a payout to all employees, sources say.
Even weeks after the revelation that Google paid Windsurf $2.4 billion to license its technology, while simultaneously hiring away its CEO and top talent, the deal’s implications are still rattling some founders and startup employees across Silicon Valley. The other half was in the form of compensation packages for approximately 40 Windsurf employees hired by the tech giant with a substantial portion of that $1.2 billion going to the startup’s co-founders, Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen, sources say. But what’s rattling the Valley is this: while Google’s deal was good for the co-founders and VCs, it didn’t benefit a large portion of Windsurf’s approximately 250 employees, especially after they were expecting a payout from the sale to OpenAI.
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