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Joseph Wang

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  • Today’s interview is with Anysphere co-founder and CEO Michael Truell. Anysphere makes Cursor, the leading AI-powered code editor. Cursor integrates AI into every aspect of the developer workflow, including “Tab” autocomplete, AI Chat, inline editing and refactoring, codebase search, and agent modes. Cursor is one of the fastest-growing startups in history, reaching $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 12 months; Cursor has a SaaS model and a bottoms-up go-to-market, with the ability to opt into usage-based pricing if you exceed your limits.
    An Interview with Cursor Co-Founder and CEO Michael Truell About Coding With AI – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding