The Quiet, Galactic Ambitions of Cursor CEO Michael Truell - Business Insider
archive.today webpage capture Saved from no other snapshots from this url 15 Jun 2026 08:26:39 UTC All snapshots from host www.businessinsider.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee DISCOURSE Inside Cursor's chaotic rise How the world's hottest AI coding company hitched its fate to Elon Musk's rocket ship Cursor CEO Michael Truell. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images; BI By Shubhangi Goel and Charles Rollet Jun 15, 2026, 8:11 AM UTC Comment 1 min T n 2019, Michael Truell, a shy, 18-year-old MIT student, sat staring at a coding test in the cafe of the Computer History Museum. It was supposed to take him about an hour, but he finished it in less than 10 minutes. "He crushed it," recalls tech investor Ali Partovi, who runs a program to find the world's best coders while they're still undergrads. With the extra time, Partovi asked Truell to give him a coding question. Partovi, a programmer who cofounded Code.org, took far longer to compl
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