Scott Wu co-founded Cognition AI in November 2023 after winning three consecutive International Olympiad in Informatics gold medals between 2012 and 2014, including a perfect score in his final competition. Before Cognition, Wu co-founded Lunchclub, an AI-powered professional networking platform, and studied at Harvard University.
As CEO, Wu has guided Cognition through a rapid valuation climb built around Devin's positioning as a fully autonomous coding agent rather than an incremental code-completion tool, a distinction he has emphasized publicly as central to the company's approach to AI-assisted software engineering.