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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
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Truell: AI code editors are moving from an iPod to iPhone moment
“I think that one of the key challenges facing the company in the future, and we've faced in the past, is we are in a market that's like, you know, had a iPod moment, and like, it's gonna have an iPhone moment.”
Michael Truell Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 0:09 Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
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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
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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
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Truell: Cursor plans early M&A to add products and GM structures
“I think increasingly in the future, you know, with the whole suite of products that are possible in our space and with the benefits we think of bundling those together, we're especially interested in earlier than most companies in their maturity using M&A as a…”
Michael Truell Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 23:26 Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
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Truell: Cursor's first acquisition was Supermaven, founded by Tabnine's creator
“The first real M&A we did was SuperMaven. And so This as just one concrete example, this was a team of five people. It was started by the person who had built Copilot, GitHub Copilot before GitHub Copilot, which was tab nine and was also a researcher at OpenAI”
Michael Truell Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 24:08 Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
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