Michael Truell

6 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 10, 2025 by Michael Truell · said 26 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Nov 10, 2025
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Truell: Cursor flew across the world to recruit candidates who rejected them
“Us growing the initial 10 people on the team, we did crazy recruiting stunts, like flying across the world to the person. Oh yeah. After they say no.”
Michael Truell Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 0:00 Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
Nov 10, 2025
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Truell: Cursor originally started as an AI CAD tool for mechanical engineers
“Yeah, initial false start of working on, ah, working on mechanical engineering actually, and working on mech models to help people be more productive within CAD systems, and also building, building our own sort of CAD system.”
Michael Truell Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 3:58 Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
Nov 10, 2025 bullish
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Truell: Cursor must become a multi-product AI coding provider
“I do think we're going to need to be a multi-product company going into the future. I think that there's a big multi-product opportunity in our space where there's a whole AI coding bundle to be built, and we kind of want to be the, ah, for many of our custome…”
Michael Truell Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 16:18 Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
Nov 10, 2025
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Truell: Cursor maintains two-day in-office work trials past 200 employees
“And so, that's one of the more unorthodox things we do, is we have this two-day onsite, and we've clung to it, even though we are over 200 people now.”
Michael Truell Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 20:47 Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
Nov 10, 2025
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Truell: Cursor gave early sales candidates access to live customer data
“It was, yeah, it was a little bit more structured where, you know, they would do a demo they would do some, like, mock customer communications, but we would give them access to the real data and have them dig in.”
Michael Truell Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 21:11 Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
Aug 27, 2026 neutral
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Bornstein: Cursor founder initially refused to build a dedicated sales team
“Early on, I think I told Michael a few times too. It's like, oh, you better invest in sales. He's like, nope, I'm not going to do that. They literally set up enterprise at cursor.com. It's like, if you're an enterprise, send your inquiries to this.”
Matt Bornstein Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 22:14 How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
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