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Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a series of Company Dispatches, in which a member of Colossus or Positive Sum temporarily embeds with a company—either as an employee, investor, or informal observer—and reports back on their impressions. I was first introduced to the Cursor team through a former colleague who said the company was looking to meet people with “interesting perspectives on marketing.” We had a 30-minute chat followed by an invitation to drop by Cursor’s San Francisco headquarters, which rolled into a handful of informal (I thought) conversations with team members. I followed up with some reflections from my conversations and went about my week. The next thing I knew, I was getting texts from former colleagues about the Cursor team “backchanneling” me about a paid role to which I was not aware of having applied. This was somewhat irritating but also flattering, and in what I’ve now learned is typical Cursor fashion, within two weeks I had a Cursor laptop at m

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