Varun Mohan-Sold his company to Google for 22,000 crores at the age of just 28!

Now, second generation Indians have started showing their mettle in America. Those whose parents came to America to seek their fortune, they sent their children to the best universities. Now they are making a name for themselves.
Varun Mohan has been talented since childhood. In this regard, Indian youth who grow up in America have an advantage. If someone is born with talent there, he does not have to waste time preparing for IIT-JEE. He can focus on his passion from the very beginning.
The Harker School, San Jose—First in Mathematics and Computer Olympiads there. For the first time, everyone realized that he had a fiery talent hidden inside him. Naturally, he got a chance at MIT. He started doing a bachelor of science-dual degree in computer science and engineering and math together. In both cases, he stood first in his class at MIT. That means he proved himself to be the best amongst the best.

2014–2017 was a great time—he was busy sitting in the lecture halls of MIT, earning two degrees: Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering, with a focus on operating systems, distributed computing, machine learning, performance engineering, and algorithms.

After graduating from MIT, he moved to Silicon Valley, working on GPU virtualization, autonomy systems, and data infrastructure at companies like LinkedIn, Quora, Databricks, Cloudian, and Nuro. He also developed his skills as an engineer.
But Varun Mohan wanted something bigger—a complete AI-powered coding revolution.
In June 2021, he secretly started Codeium with his MIT friend Douglas Chen. One was Indian, the other Chinese. Both were students of Tucson—a huge talent. It later evolved into Windsurf. Later, the two focused on building an AI-agent called “Cascade.” It is a coding environment where one million developers joined in just four months. Software developers fell in love with the platform he created.
And when the market loves the product, money pours in like a flood! Investors poured money into his company in sacks. From $3 million seed to $150 million Series-B––$1.25 billion [10,000 crore taka] valuation in just two years—a record in almost every respect.
His ‘vibe coding’ concept—where code is written with natural language prompted AI, as if software is born with words—has made coding more creative and easier. He himself says, “Engineers spend more time than just writing code…”—LLM tools have increased productivity by 30–40%, so more “engineers should be hired.”

In the summer of 2025, an offer of $3 billion [rupees 25,000 crore] came from OpenAI—but Varun did not agree. Because giving that OpenAI would mean selling Microsoft. And Microsoft means, they will make a good product inferior! As a result, Varun sat down despite the offer of 25,000 crores! Money is not everything in his life !!!

Sundar Pichai saw this opportunity. He told Varun – his freedom will remain intact – Google will help him all the way. At the same time, he will buy his company for 20,000 crores. July 11, 2025 – Pichai announced from Google DeepMind – “We’re hiring Varun Mohan, Douglas Chen and the Windsurf R&D team – with a non-exclusive license for the development of Gemini with an investment of $ 2.4 billion” – this is not an acquisition, but rather a talent-technology deal.

Google got Windsurf’s idea for their AI agentic coding future and Windsurf became independent by making Jeff Wang the interim CEO. Varun Mohan got the guarantee of working independently.

Varun’s life is only 28 years old. In the meantime, he is a billionaire. No, his father is a very ordinary software worker. The son of a middle-class family.

Technology has been providing this advantage in America for the last thirty years, and in India for the last ten years as well – you can be born in an ordinary middle-class family. But if you have talent, the possibilities of success are endless. Before turning thirty, many second-generation Indian children have made a fortune of more than 1000 crores in this America of the software industry.

Today’s capitalist system is ready to give everything to those who have talent. But today there is no price for that ordinary quality talent. You have to be the best talent, that’s all!