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Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:43 unnamed speaker Without this, we have no lovable, no vacations to Greece, no replet, no cursor that really works, no gamma. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:20 unnamed speaker Um, first money into cursor, ok? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:43 unnamed speaker It doesn't really matter if, if cursor got to twenty seven billion with 300 employees.
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf
- ▶ 2:48 Harry Stebbings You can teach your organizational standards using your own custom instructions, such as cursor or clawed rules, and enforce them on every PR.
- ▶ 55:32 Harry Stebbings You can teach your organizational standards using your own custom instructions, such as cursor or clawed rules, and enforce them on every PR.
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:43 Harry Stebbings So it's a UI inside the cursor browser, lets you tweet web apps, drag and drop, CSS. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:03 Jason Calacanis Could I just go back to one point on cursor versus Figma? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:21 Harry Stebbings You've got a Figma at seventeen billion or Cursor at 29. 6 times in the scene
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:38 Jason Lemkin We, we, we, we talk about a couple LMs, but like so many of the, the high hot companies use their own LMs and their Chinese models, cursor zone model, Chinese model windsurf. 4 times in the scene
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30 Tarek Mansour I think Anthropik is growing faster, and I'm not sure about Merkur and Cursor, but we're, you know, growing at that sort of, at that pace, at that rate.
20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings Such as cursor or clawed rules, and enforce them on every PR.
- ▶ 25:32 Federico Simionato When I was working on Evernote, I still am a lot, but, but when I was focusing only on Evernote, we didn't have lovable cursor and these tools. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:21 Harry Stebbings Claude Code or Cursor? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:45 Harry Stebbings You can teach your organizational standards using your own custom instructions, such as cursor or clawed rules, and enforce them on every PR.
Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:07 Jason Lemkin Like literally we could fire up our cursor lovable replet and just build an app right now while we're here and access our Salesforce data.
- ▶ 29:45 Jason Lemkin Or cursor charging 500 dollars a month when I pay three dollars, um, for Jira.
- ▶ 1:02:51 Jason Lemkin Cursor didn't figure this out. 2 times in the scene
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:28 Jonathan Siddharth So this human underwriter that's about to, um, use this model to evaluate, um, these medical histories, you might want to build a cursor like interface for them so that they can work alongside the AI to do their job.
- ▶ 47:24 Jonathan Siddharth Uh, Andre Karpathy like articulated this first, um, when talking about why cursor works so well, because it's not designed for full autonomy. 3 times in the scene
20Sales: John McMahon on How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Sales Reps | How Sales Changes in a World of AI | Sales Lessons from Snowflake and MongoDB | How to Create and Drive a Sales Process with Urgency
- ▶ 6:01 Harry Stebbings But if we look at the domination of PLG products that are now pervading their way into enterprise, like a cursor, or like an OpenAI and ChatGPT, which obviously have enterprise editions, does that not fundamentally change the way that we…
Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:31 Harry Stebbings Cursor and Anthropic. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:30 Jason Lemkin Like if you can do the cursor, I know we all hate the cursor of whatever pitch, but somewhat a lot of folks say they built the curse of marketing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:58 Jason Lemkin But we, and it seems, you know, it seems almost quaint compared to Cursor, but maybe it ends up being one of the greatest, you know, deals, smartest deals of all time, right?
Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:06 Harry Stebbings And then, sorry, you've also got the cognitions, and the cursors, and the Pro Tools there. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:29 Maor Shlomo So Kerser came out, I think it was two weeks ago, or maybe a few weeks ago with their own model, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:05 Harry Stebbings For how you beat Cursor? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:47 Harry Stebbings Replit, Cursor, Cognition, all very Silicon Valley businesses.
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:42 Harry Stebbings Um, but I want to start on some very exciting news for Cursor. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:55 Harry Stebbings So I think Codex is going to have 60%, Anthropix is going to have 20%, and Curse is going to have 20%, for example. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:54 unnamed speaker Cause like this is a company cursor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:30 unnamed speaker It's kind of a bummer, despite, you know, cursor hitting a thirty billion in 22 months.
- ▶ 1:21:50 Harry Stebbings Uh, would you rather invest in Cognition at twelve billion or Cursor at twenty-nine billion? 5 times in the scene
20Product: How AI Changes Product Design | Does the Design Phase Become Irrelevant in a World of Vibe Coding | The Five Pillars of Truly Great Product Design with Carl Rivera, Chief Design Officer at Shopify
- ▶ 0:47 Harry Stebbings You can teach your organizational standards using your own custom instructions, such as cursor or clawed rules, and enforce them on every PR.
- ▶ 34:11 Carl Rivera And you'll have cursor or whichever tool you use build that for you. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:07 Harry Stebbings Is it cursor? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:39 Harry Stebbings You can teach your organizational standards using your own custom instructions, such as cursor or clawed rules, and enforce them on every PR.
Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:11 Jason Lemkin It's about AI and missing cursor and missing these deals. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:22 unnamed speaker Take a, take cursor as a horizontal product.
- ▶ 34:25 unnamed speaker I think it emerged Curser, I think it emerged, ah, you know, kind of Winsurf, and then to a different extent Cognition, by the B, and it was obvious that those were the names. 3 times in the scene
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:09 Harry Stebbings Um, what happens to Cursor? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:22 Harry Stebbings Cursor, which hits a hundred, you know, a billion in ARR insanely fast, and outcomes are so much larger than we ever anticipated.
- ▶ 1:18:15 Everett Randle I am not a, I mean, we're investors in cursor. 2 times in the scene
Is a $4.5BN Exit Enough in VC? & Harvey Raises $150M & Why Google is a Buy and Amazon is a Sell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:29 Jason Lemkin At the same time, what we're all learning now, we feel like it's late with all the stuff we talked about, the cursors and replets and levels and Sierras, but it's actually so early in so many categories, right?
- ▶ 1:02:32 Rory O'Driscoll You know, we, you know, I have a number of my colleagues who are engineers, and it's just really great when you can say, you know, when you actually touch and use the product, if it's an app, I try and use it, if it's cursor or something,…
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:51 Jason Calacanis You know, uh, Claude code would be at a billion, that cursor would be at a billion, that Replit would be coming up in a billion.
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- ▶ 1:25 Harry Stebbings You can teach your organizational standards using your own custom instructions, such as cursor or clawed rules, and enforce them on every PR.
- ▶ 12:47 Harry Stebbings Are they using cursor? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:57 Harry Stebbings I would share the same, by the way, for cursor even. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:04 Harry Stebbings You can teach your organizational standards using your own custom instructions, such as cursor or clawed rules, and enforce them on every PR.
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:35 unnamed speaker Our engineers came back, 50% built with cursor.
Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:00 Mike Cannon-Brookes We have many, many code creation tools, so we use RovoDev, we use Cursor, we use Copilot, um, we use a lot of things.
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:25 Harry Stebbings Do you worry about the competitive nature of the landscape when you look across at codex, but then you've also got your cognitions, and then you've also got your cursors, and you've got your kind of on the lower, more consumer, and your,…
20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
- ▶ 20:30 Harry Stebbings When you compare it to like a cursor or a windsurf, you don't have that same parallel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:44 Harry Stebbings And how do you think about the challenge respectfully of like Decadon's a hot as fuck company, but no offense against Anthropic, Meta, and Cursor, where you're just against, you know, Massa Sun styles of cash.
- ▶ 45:45 Harry Stebbings Like, no offense, your engineers are debating between Cursor and Windsurf and what the new MCP XYZ protocol is.
- ▶ 50:36 Jesse Zhang I mean, that's why cursor uses anthropics models.
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:08 unnamed speaker If you don't see some of these numbers, it's not just cursor and friends and Replit, which we could talk about.
- ▶ 1:02:36 unnamed speaker Like literally all you do is turn it on in cursor or lovable or replet or a million other apps or, you know, whoever Higgs field or gamma moves over to GTP five codex instead.
Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:25 Brendan Foody One month faster than Cursor's time.
- ▶ 19:20 Brendan Foody No, but what we're, what we're sharing imminently is that, uh, we scaled the business from one to five hundred million in revenue run rate in the last 17 months, which is the fastest revenue growth of all time, uh, one month faster than…
- ▶ 39:19 Brendan Foody Like, the amount of utility that our engineers get from Cursor and Cloud Code and Cognition is incredible, and same thing for- 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why AI SDRs are BS and Do Not Work | How to Use AI in Your Sales Team and Process to Win Today | What Skills Do All New Reps Need to Have in an AI First World with Amit Bendov, CEO @ Gong
- ▶ 20:02 Amit Bendov People talk about like, you know, cursor for engineers or Harvey for lawyers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:09 Harry Stebbings Do you think that actually being in an open AI, a cursor sales team is actually useful as an experience base because it's so non-reflective.
- ▶ 59:23 Harry Stebbings But he also was blunt, and he was like, listen, if you are not open AI, cursor, anthropic, you name it, or meta, good fucking luck. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:39 Harry Stebbings Uh, Mike Truel at Curse, uh, you name any of these great founders who are very pivotal to a business could look at this and go, well, this is a new benchmark.
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:53 Harry Stebbings Do you mandate cursor? 3 times in the scene
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 12:12 Harry Stebbings I interview a lot of the best product and growth leaders, and a lot say we're going to see the kind of collapsing of skills into one kind of superhuman, where you have kind of product, growth, eng in one person, with kind of…
Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:30 Cliff Obrecht Cursor seems to be the one that's kind of leading the pack.
- ▶ 32:49 unnamed speaker And they, but they did, and it's obviously with the cursor, um, cloud code, et cetera.
Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:34 Harry Stebbings And you're seeing Anthropic now with Claude, really challenging the cursor of the world.
- ▶ 55:07 Nick Frosst Like that's a huge amount of their, so like, you know, maybe it's like, I think, whatever, a 50% cursor or something. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:16 Nick Frosst Um, but I, I use Cursor, and Cursor's a great, a great, 5 times in the scene
20Product: Why Most CPOs are Bad | Why You Do Not Need PMs in a World of AI | Why the Design Stage is Dead and How to Use Vibe Coding to Replace It | The Three Roles All Founders End Up Firing on Repeat with Jason James @ Tezi
- ▶ 6:16 Jason James We haven't quite gotten to the place where the designer can use cursor to like vibe code it themselves. 2 times in the scene
Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:57 Harry Stebbings To what extent do you feel OpenAI and Anthropic will come after Lovable in the way that Claude Code comes after Cursor?
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:38 Rory O'Driscoll And on top of that, it's noticeable cursor now is pushing a, um, GPT five based product, you know, and has free demos of that. 3 times in the scene
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:40 Martin Mignot Or is something that, especially if it's inserted inside their workflow, you know, Cursor is a good example, you know, we've made a bunch of those type of investments, then in all likelihood, even if the numbers didn't show it yet, in all…
- ▶ 39:46 Harry Stebbings Open AI are going to be bigger, but your open AI is your anthropics, your cursors, and there's probably five to 10 in this kind of ilk.
20Sales: $0-$3.7BN: The Databricks CRO's Playbook to Build the Fastest GTM Engine in SaaS History | How Databricks Beat Snowflake | How To Build a Sales Org of 5,000 and Close $190M Deals with Ron Gabrisko
- ▶ 57:45 unnamed speaker I think cursor is super impressive. 5 times in the scene
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:39 Miles Dieffenbach Cursor.
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:40 Jason Lemkin Or if they use it through cursor, it really doesn't matter where you're buying the tokens. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:08 unnamed speaker There's outside of cursor, no one can hire anybody. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:58 unnamed speaker 12 months from now, it's going to be, you know, if, if you don't have a billion dollars at stake in it, it's going to be fun to watch, you know, how, what kind of products these guys roll out to be competitive with parts of either the…
- ▶ 1:17:48 unnamed speaker When I look at those two bets, they're not dissimilar in the sense of, you know, I love them being at four hundred million versus cursor being at four billion, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:44 Martin Casado So like now I literally just, I mean, I use cursor
- ▶ 40:53 Martin Casado I would say every company I work with uses cursor, right?
20Product: Should We Kill the PM Role Entirely | How Does Product Design Change Most in a World of AI | How Do Monzo Build Product Today: What Works, What Does Not | Why Most Product Sucks and What Makes Truly Great Product
- ▶ 44:10 Fernando Fanton What is the secret sauce and why do users prefer Lavable versus Courser or all the new ones that will pop up?
How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:34 Jason Lemkin The flip side is what I, I'm embarrassed, Harry, that we've been talking about Cursor and Windsurf and Claude and Claude, we've been talking about all these big numbers and rounds, but I never understood the general topic of safety and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:17 Rory O'Driscoll Do you think that's a better business than selling to the engineering, the software engineer, like cursor was doing where the implied assumption is the software engineer understands a lot of the background stuff that maybe you and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:52 Harry Stebbings The one that I do want to touch on, we mentioned that kind of where the value lies and we touched on Cursor. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:34 Harry Stebbings Reportedly generating four billion in revenue to a point where I'm sure cursor are nine hundred and fifty million of that, so to speak.
- ▶ 34:15 Rory O'Driscoll Do you think someone like Cursor can develop
- ▶ 51:13 Harry Stebbings You know, Cursor being a twenty eight billion dollar company with a billion in revenue.
Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:07 Harry Stebbings I'm an investor in poolside, which, uh, if you don't know, obviously is kind of in the, um, same space as say a cursor or a windsurf, but they're bluntly, they seemingly are much more behind because they've built their own models and they…
Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:50 Harry Stebbings Cursor and Windsurf owned consumer attention and owned the brand.
- ▶ 29:59 Harry Stebbings When you think about that, and you think about, like, developer, where the market shakes out, is it that cursor win bottoms up developer minds, and windsurf win, and cognition now win top-down large enterprise
- ▶ 33:28 Scott Wu And that's different from, you know, it's different from a cursor.
- ▶ 40:34 Scott Wu And then if you take all the application layer companies, you know, it's, the, the top ones that come to mind are, you know, there's Perplexity, there's Sierra, there's Dekagon, there's Harvey, there's Us, there's Kerser, there's, you know,
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:27 unnamed speaker Cursor, uh, Lovable, your rat plates, but then obviously also your windsurfs, have paved the way, and despite Cognition taking an early lead, they were left behind completely. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:12 Rory O'Driscoll And then the cursors and wind surfers are for professional developers who know what they're doing, who, who can use this tool to augment what they do, who will actually review the Python, review the code base, 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:00 Jason Lemkin I would bet that, um, you know, Cursor's retention has always been higher than Lovables or Replets for the point you made. 3 times in the scene
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