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every year 2026 anyone Martin Casado 41Matt Bornstein 24Sarah Wang 20Aaron Levie 11Nathan Labenz 9Guido Appenzeller 9Gavin Baker 9Anish Acharya 9Russ Fraden 8Erik Torenberg 8
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Cursor comes up
Why Investors Are Rethinking Everything for the AI Era
- ▶ 22:07 Aram Verdian But for every, for nine companies like that, there's one really special one that's doing a couple of million in ARR, actual ARR, that is a huge valuation that will go on to be the next cursor. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:54 Jen Kha Cursor, let's not, let's exclude the IPOs.
- ▶ 42:26 Aram Verdian Cursor,
Can AI Learn Mathematical Intuition?
Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 40:21 Gavin Baker We don't even need to, we can just look at things that are happening today with terrestrial compute, with cursor, with Grok, with GrokBot.
- ▶ 53:01 Gavin Baker I think the best broad instantiation of that today, outside of GrokBot, outside of Cursor, outside of, you know, like Harvey's done some cool things. 5 times in the scene
How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
- ▶ 0:27 Martin Casado For us, the decision to invest in Cursery was actually pretty obvious. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06 Sarah Wang But can you walk us through what was going on in the Q one, Q two of that year and maybe how you guys started working with Cursor well before we ever partnered officially with them? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:16 Matt Bornstein Um, I remember, uh, I, when we were trying to convince the cursor team to let us invest in their company, um, uh, I asked Michael once what he did for fun, like outside of, outside of work. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:35 Matt Bornstein We literally had a cursor team on our team. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:06 Martin Casado And I think another thing that the Cursor team probably doesn't get, you know, the, the level of credit for, um, is to the extent they cannibalized themselves so dramatically in like a Reed Hastings type way in a matter of two years, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:29 Sarah Wang I mean, I, you know, I think I'm gonna borrow this quote from something you said, Martine, but, you know, first comes the technical transformation, then comes the business model, and in this case, like, I think the, the strategy where they… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:12 Sarah Wang I mean, it narrows the base that you can hire from completely, but because, you know, I think Jordan Roman and the early team got that right, they just were able to scale it quickly without losing the cursor culture. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:25 Sarah Wang And if you think about the cursor team, um, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:17 Matt Bornstein Cursor is also really good at doing M&A, like, like, doing small talk and acquisition. 10 times in the scene
The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
- ▶ 13:19 Anish Acharya We're actually seeing this with cursor a ton where you want to do a very frontier model for planning, for example, but then you can use a lesser model for execution.
How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- ▶ 0:45 Martin Casado And I think this is why we're seeing such meteoric rows of the cursors, the anthropics, and the open AIs.
- ▶ 47:57 Martin Casado Um, such meteoric growths of the cursors, the anthropics, and the open AIs, that results in capital access, and that has put them on, on, on even footing.
Tokens Are the New Dollars | Stripe's Will Gaybrick & David George
- ▶ 2:55 Will Gaybrick And so actually, I think cursor was the first user that was going to say, it was our portfolio where we experienced it.
- ▶ 44:08 Will Gaybrick Users who have sort of general whose platforms are general purpose token consumers, you know, you can do just about anything with tokens on cursor, right?
Lighthouse or Landgrab? How to Pick Your AI Sales Strategy
- ▶ 32:11 Joe Schmidt And of course, like, you know, we were big investors in Cursor and
How Open Source Became AI's Backbone | Inferact with a16z
- ▶ 7:37 Matt Bornstein I mean, this is what Cursor did.
The New Rule for Picking AI Winners | The a16z Show
- ▶ 10:05 David Clark I mean, particularly something like Wiz and Cursor, you'd, you'd kind of like four, five, six years
- ▶ 21:17 David George Uh, you know, like, Cursor, as an example, is, you know, billions of dollars of revenue.
Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- ▶ 11:30 Marc Rowan Private markets are 80% of the action going on in the world, and if you think about what's going on, great companies, Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, Cognition, Cursor, Anderol, on and on and on, every one of those companies is private,…
Box CEO on AI Agents & Why Enterprise Can't Keep Up | a16z
- ▶ 53:34 Aaron Levie They're going to now have the next set of engineers that are going to use cloud code and codex and cursor to be able to automate even more of, of their businesses and be able to design and develop even more software for their workflows and…
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 1:46 Olivia Moore We have Cloud in Excel, PowerPoint in Chrome, and then we have desktop apps like Cursor, Whisperflow, Granola.
- ▶ 30:06 Olivia Moore Is gonna be a pretty good idea, because if you think about things like Cursor, some of the consumer prosumer AI apps that are generating the most revenue have very few, very little usage on web.
AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
- ▶ 8:46 David George With quad code and codex and cursor and just, they had unlimited budget on coding tools.
The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling
- ▶ 21:32 unnamed speaker There's one question here, David, if I can interject, uh, because you, you are the business model snob, so I, this is a perfect question for you, which is, there's a lot of debate on whether the gross margins of a lot of AI companies…
- ▶ 38:22 David George To, like, Cursor, uh, and, you know, nothing looks like Cursor, so it's unfair, but like Cursor and Decagon and Abridge and 11 Labs, uh, you know, and not, like, Shopify and DocuSign and, you know, those companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:59 David George Uh, so, you know, companies like Cursor and Decagon and 11 and Abridge and, and, you know, others.
Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration
- ▶ 23:11 Ben Horowitz And so if you look at cursor, uh, cursor consists, I think, of 13 different AI models, all which kind of model different aspects of how you program, how you speak to a programmer, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 4 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 52:45 Marc Andreessen So like an application company, like classic examples, like a cursor is like an application company. 2 times in the scene