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Lemkin: A $100 billion startup exit will happen within a year
“The big exits will solve it, right? The whizzes and the, I mean, we thought whizz was big. Now we have cursor. Now I'm going to win the bet of a hundred billion dollar exit in the next year.”
Stebbings: Cursor doubled revenue from $1B to $2B in three months
“Cursor announces their movement from a billion to two billion in revenue in, in three months. Rumors of secondary round being done at fifty billion.”
Mercor scaled from $1M to $500M run rate in 17 months
“We scaled the business from one to five hundred million in the last 17 months, which is the fastest revenue growth of all time. One month faster than Cursor's time.”
Stebbings: Cursor just sold for $60 billion after only four years
“Cursor just sold for sixty billion dollars after four years.”
Stebbings: SpaceX closes $60B takeover of Cursor
“SpaceX closes the sixty billion dollar all stock takeover of cursor, minting thousand X returns for the likes of Alipartovia Neo. Open AI startup fund is a mega winner who invested six to eight million dollars very early, which Rory, I thought of you when you …”
O'Driscoll: Cursor loses money despite generating $4M per employee
“Cursor does four million per employee. Salesforce does 700 per 700,000 per employee. Oh, Cursor must be more efficient. Well, it turns out Salesforce has 30% operating margins and Cursor's losing a lot of money. Why? Because they spend a whole ton on tokens, r…”
Clements: Cursor will build specialized coding models for enterprise users
“Cursor is going to build specialized coding models that are going to serve specialized coding tasks, especially for a lot of enterprise users.”
Anish Acharya: Early AI market leaders from 2023-2024 have maintained their dominance
“In this product cycle, what's actually interesting is a bunch of the early leaders from 23 and 24 have maintained their lead. You know, we talked about Harvey. That's a really impressive company. You know, Gamma is a really impressive company. You know, Cursor…”
Lemkin: HubSpot engineers using Cursor are pushing out too many features
“Literally I talked with Yamini wrong on from HubSpot last week. Okay. This is HubSpot. She said now at HubSpot there with cursor, they are pushing out so many features. They can't put them into production anymore. She wasn't kidding. They're there. It said the…”
O'Driscoll: Cursor deal would be the largest private venture acquisition ever
“If this deal closes in three months, This is the biggest ever privately held venture acquisition, period, full stop, end of story.”
Clements: Cursor cloud agent accounts for 35% of merged PRs
“You know, the cloud agent product, which was new as of like October 30th, so it's only been in market for three months, is now responsible for 35% of merged PRs in cursor.”
Clements: Cursor's AI agent product usage grew 15x last year
“The agent product grew 15 X last year.”
Clements: 90% of Cursor users are daily active agent users
“90% of cursor users are daily active users of the agent product.”
Lemkin: Anthropic generates roughly $1B annually from Cursor
“Right now, it's great for Anthropic to get an extra billion or so a year from Cursor.”
Stebbings: Cursor Is Raising Funding at Reported $28B Valuation
“I mean, Cursor are raising more money now, and I think it's a reported twenty eight billion dollars. Just going to your point on like the escape velocity that this 0.00001% have being so much more than ever before.”
Hacker: Duolingo PM built initial chess course prototype using Cursor
“He was able to build this first version just using cursor and a bunch of AI tools. And the prototype is what convinced us that we should do this.”
Lin Qiao: Almost all AI coding startups now fine-tune custom models
“In coding space, Cursor probably is one of the pioneers starting to tune their model, and now almost all coding companies tune their own models.”
Stebbings: Cursor Hit $4B Valuation, Targets $6B By Year-End
“Cursor has hit four billion, and it's targeting six billion at the end of the year.”
Clements: Cursor has 2x more agent users than tab autocomplete users
“There are two times more people using agents in cursor than using the tab feature.”
Jerry Murdock: Cursor will pivot strategy toward autonomous AI agents
“Now, my view is, yeah, well, but that team is really smart. They've got a lot of money and a lot of customers. They've got time to embrace autonomous agents, which is what I think they'll do. And they've got shots to pivot and figure out what the next directio…”
Tunguz: AI coding assistant Cursor operates with just 30 total employees
“You don't have a lot of ESOP dilution because total employee count is 30.”
Lemkin: Cursor, Bolt, and Windsurf struggled for years before exploding
“I mean, I know Cursor almost died, right? Bolt almost died, right? And then finally it hit for Cursor. I don't know the whole story of Windsurf. Even Windsurf was Codium before it, right? It wasn't even the same, like everyone talks about Windsurf. 90 days ago…”