Company · Artificial Intelligence · Software · founded 2023

Cognition

AI software company behind Devin, a coding agent. Co-founded by Scott Wu, Steven Hao and Walden Yan, who met on the competitive programming circuit, per Forbes.

Of the 1 person here linked to Cognition, 1 is a founder and 1 is still there. 1 of them also appear at Scale AI. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: forbes.com. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

1 person at Cognition

Founder

Role

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, 2023–now

Also at

Scale AI

Source · high confidence. Forbes lists him as cofounder and CTO on October 20, 2026. Wikipedia gives the same title.

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Steven Hao

Co-founder and CTO of Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent; IOI gold medalist and early Scale AI engineer

class not established · well-connected · college degree

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