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Douglas Chen
Douglas Chen is a co-founder of Windsurf, the US developer-tools company originally launched in 2021 as Exafunction and later renamed Codeium and then Windsurf, which he built with chief executive Varun Mohan after the two met at MIT. He previously worked at Meta on software for its Oculus VR headsets. In July 2025 Google paid around $2.4bn to license Windsurf's technology and hire Chen, Mohan and part of the team into Google DeepMind.
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