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The primary subject of this article is the business conflict and potential data leakage between two AI startups, Factory and Cognition, involving a former board advisor moving to a competitor. While it touches on venture capital dynamics, the core narrative revolves entirely around the strategic landscape of the agentic coding agent market and the implications for proprietary AI development practices.

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Factory CEO just accused his VC board adviser of spying for Cognition

TechCrunchSeptember 30, 20264 min read

VC Chris Degnan and former board adviser to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for competitor Cognition -- and everyone is arguing on X about it.

Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO of the AI coding startup Factory, said in a post on X on Wednesday that he fired VC Chris Degnan from role as a board advisor. Grinberg alleges that Degnan shared confidential information with Factory’s biggest competitor, Cognition. Two hours later, Degnan announced on both X and LinkedIn that he has joined Cognition as its chief revenue officer. Degnan was Snowflake’s first sales…

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