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The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO)

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1 Gift a subscription Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO) 98 2 13 1× 0:00 Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:11:13 -1:11:13 0:00 MICHAEL TRUELL ... our goal with Cursor is to invent a new type of programming, a very different way to build software. So a world kind of after code, I think that more and more being an engineer will start to feel like being a logic designer, and really, it will be about specifying your intent for how exactly you want everything to work. 0:16 LENNY RACHITSKY What is the most counter-intuitive thing you've learned so far about building Cursor? 0:20 MICHAEL TRUELL We definitely didn't expect to be doing any of our own model development. And at this point, every magic moment in Cursor involves a custom model in some way. 0:26 LENNY RACHITSKY What's something that you wish you knew before you got into this role? 0:29 MICHAEL TRUELL Many people

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO) 120 2 14 1× 0:00 Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:11:13 -1:11:13 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO) Cursor’s early pivot, rapid growth, lessons on hiring, moats, and creating the future of software engineering Lenny Rachitsky May 01, 2025 120 2 14 Share Transcript Listen now: YouTube // Apple // Spo

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