Cognition's CEO: Factory's allegations are not true
Scott Wu answered Matan Grinberg in public and said Cognition never asked anyone to collect competitor info under the table. Also: Marc Lou says TrustMRR is at 230K monthly visitors, and most of his traffic is bots.
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Marc Lou says TrustMRR hit 230K monthly visitors, half of them returning
Marc Lou reports 230K monthly unique visitors on TrustMRR, up 30% versus last month, with 51% of visitors returning at 4.6 pages per session. In the same post he says bot traffic is roughly 3x human traffic. He also shipped an acquisition pipeline for buyers: save startups, group them into folders, track ongoing deals.
Bot traffic is ~3x more than human traffic
What changed under us
Jason Fried says he built a tool he could never have built himself
Asked whether agents simply made experimenting cheap enough to try, Jason Fried said he could not have built this before himself in any reasonable time without learning a pile of new things, and could not have asked anyone else because they had more important work. He does not put a number or a timeline on the build.
I've always had the vision. Never the time or talent. Now I have it all.
Founder fights
Cognition CEO Scott Wu calls Factory's accusations untrue
Scott Wu answered Matan Grinberg in public, saying Cognition has no interest in Factory's information, that Chris Degnan never raised it, and that they would never ask anyone to collect competitor info under the table. He says Degnan advises at least 10 companies and told Grinberg on Monday he was resigning as an advisor.
competing with integrity doesn’t include posts like yours