Scott Wu

Wu was born in 1997 in Louisiana to a Chinese immigrant family. He attended Baton Rouge Magnet High School. Growing up, he competed in competitions related to programming and mathematics, and won three gold medals (placing first in 2014) at the International Olympiad in Informatics. He also competed in Mathcounts and became individual champion in 2011.

After high school, Wu attended Harvard University for two years before dropping out. As an undergraduate at Harvard College, he was part of the team representing it in the 2016 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) which won a gold medal and came third place overall.

From 2014 to 2015, Wu worked as software engineer at Addepar.

In 2017, Wu co-founded Lunchclub and was its CTO until 2022 when he left to pursue different interests. Wu was listed in 2020 edition of Forbes 30 Under 30 for co-founding Lunchclub.

In 2021, Wu came third place in the 2021 Google Code Jam.

In 2023, Wu co-founded Cognition AI which developed Devin AI. It raised $21 million in funding from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. His wealth is estimated to be between $600 million and $1.6 billion, the latter being per Bloomberg.

Wu has an older brother, Neal. Like Scott, Neal has a competitive programming background. He graduated from Harvard University in 2014. His competitive programming achievements include three gold medals at the IOI, a team silver medal at the ICPC, and second place at the 2012 Google Code Jam. The brothers work together at Cognition AI. He previously worked at Facebook and Google.