[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-factory-ai-accuses-former-adviser-of-spying-for-rival-cognition":10,"sections":32},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":31,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":31,"total_tokens":31},8850,"factory-ai-accuses-former-adviser-of-spying-for-rival-cognition","Factory AI Accuses Former Adviser of Spying for Rival Cognition","Factory AI's CEO says a former VC board adviser secretly jumped to rival Cognition as chief revenue officer.","Factory AI's chief executive is accusing a former board adviser of feeding confidential information to a rival startup.\n\nChris Degnan, a venture capitalist who served as a board adviser to Factory AI, left that post to become chief revenue officer at Cognition, a competing AI coding startup. Factory's CEO publicly accused Degnan of effectively spying for Cognition while he sat on Factory's board. The claim surfaced on X, where it quickly turned into a public argument among founders, investors, and bystanders. Neither side has produced documents or evidence beyond the dueling posts.\n\nBoard advisers sit inside sensitive planning conversations - roadmaps, pricing, hiring - specifically because investors are supposed to be neutral stewards, not a pipeline to the competition. A VC taking an operating job at a rival he recently advised tests that assumption and raises an uncomfortable question for any founder who has put an investor on their cap table: who else has a front-row seat to your strategy.\n\nPublic X spats make for good screenshots, but they are not a substitute for a lawsuit - so far, nobody involved has shown they have one.","[\"factory-ai\",\"cognition\",\"venture-capital\",\"startup-drama\"]","2026-09-30T20:39:09.000Z","2026-10-01T07:17:23.289Z","2026-10-01T07:17:29.478Z","published",null,[],"startups",[26,27,28,29],"factory-ai","cognition","venture-capital","startup-drama",[],0,{"sections":33},[34,39,44,49,54,59,64,69,74,78,81,86,91,96],{"name":35,"slug":36,"count":37,"latest_published_at":38},"AI","ai",5271,"2026-10-01T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":40,"slug":41,"count":42,"latest_published_at":43},"Security","security",801,"2026-09-30T22:18:23.000Z",{"name":45,"slug":46,"count":47,"latest_published_at":48},"Policy","policy",429,"2026-10-01T02:26:17.000Z",{"name":50,"slug":51,"count":52,"latest_published_at":53},"Deals","deals",298,"2026-09-30T21:00:26.000Z",{"name":55,"slug":56,"count":57,"latest_published_at":58},"Hardware","hardware",196,"2026-09-30T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":60,"slug":61,"count":62,"latest_published_at":63},"Science","science",157,"2026-09-30T15:00:56.000Z",{"name":65,"slug":66,"count":67,"latest_published_at":68},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",149,"2026-09-30T22:57:11.000Z",{"name":70,"slug":71,"count":72,"latest_published_at":73},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",93,"2026-10-01T02:30:48.000Z",{"name":75,"slug":76,"count":72,"latest_published_at":77},"Software","software","2026-09-30T21:41:11.000Z",{"name":79,"slug":24,"count":80,"latest_published_at":18},"Startups",84,{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Gaming","gaming",51,"2026-09-30T16:24:30.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"General","general",50,"2026-09-30T21:37:54.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"Reviews","reviews",31,"2026-09-28T14:31:34.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]