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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Cursor comes up on 20VC, the Startup Ideas Podcast, Latent Space, Lenny's Podcast, the a16z Podcast
Home Depot: The best-performing stock in the S&P 500 since IPO (Audio)
- ▶ 1:00:14 Ben Gilbert It is why OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, and Friends of the Show at Sierra and Anthropic, along with hundreds of other AI startups,
- ▶ 2:27:15 David Rosenthal That's what Sentry does for builders of every kind, from a solo founders side project to the engineering teams at Anthropic, Vercel, Cursor, Linear, and GitHub. 2 times in the scene
AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse
- ▶ 1:17:52 Jason Calacanis They released Claude code, they released Claude design, and that really pissed off Curser, who was one of the biggest customers that Anthropoc had to date, and they felt they got rug pulled by Claude.
Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 10:55 Jason Lemkin They, those, if, if GrokBot was built in five weeks by the cursor team or whatever, I think the Manus team could have done it in between four and six, but, uh,
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,
Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?
- ▶ 44:15 Rajesh Magow Like Gemini, the Claude, the Cursor, the, uh, uh, GPT.
Why the World Order Is Collapsing and American Power Is Rising
- ▶ 12:29 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Visa, Vercel, Kerser, Stripe, Notion, 11 Labs, Shopify, and 70,000 other businesses all now run on Ramp. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:24 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Vanta automates security and compliance for over 16,000 fast-moving companies like Ramp, Cursor, and Harvey, keeping them audit-ready around the clock.
- ▶ 1:25:22 Patrick O'Shaughnessy The best AI and software companies from open AI to cursor to perplexity use WorkOS to become enterprise ready overnight
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
- ▶ 1:36 Lenny Rachitsky Roman was employee number 15 at Cursor.
- ▶ 7:36 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Replit, Sierra, Clay, and hundreds of other winning companies all have in common?
- ▶ 9:08 Lenny Rachitsky We're not gonna build this into cursor. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:35 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, I know you were a go-to-market person at Cursor before this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:31 Lenny Rachitsky So there's GrokBot, there's cursors. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:33 Roman Ugarte And for context, when I joined Cursor originally, we were about 15 people.
- ▶ 1:06:41 Lenny Rachitsky If you, if you were to look at cursor from the outside, you, it shouldn't have worked. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:26 Roman Ugarte Cursor, for example, but even I think when you look at every past iteration of GrokBot, I think we will feel the same thing, uh, is things going away, not new things getting added, but you know, these scaffolding product overhang style…
- ▶ 1:11:52 Lenny Rachitsky And a lot of people look at cursor as a really interesting example of they're in a market with, and technically maybe no moats, but they've continued to win and succeed. 6 times in the scene
Getting Laid Off Led Him to Buy the Company That Hired Him
- ▶ 7:19 Sean Weisbrot So I use cursor where you get really close to the code. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:45 Sean Weisbrot Of my application, and then I have, ah, I have a set of API, like, I have a set of documentation on the website repository, and both of them are on my computer, and since I use cursor for both, Claude is able to access both, so I can say,…
Orbs: Shifting Coding to Cloud — Quinn Slack, Amp Code
- ▶ 5:14 Shawn Wang And then I guess Cursor has done it as well.
Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble
- ▶ 35:33 Jean-Denis Greze There is the, there's the, like, Apple, Google, SpaceX, Grok, GrokBot, Cursor, you know, OpenAI and Anthropic starting gates. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:18 Jean-Denis Greze And I mean, I think this is what happened to Cursor, right, at the end.
- ▶ 1:10:49 Harry Stebbings Split between CoreCode and Cursor? 2 times in the scene
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- ▶ 6:59 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Replit, Sierra, Clay, and hundreds of other winning companies all have in common?
- ▶ 45:01 Anish Acharya Um, and that's, I know a lot of the good work the cursor team did.
- ▶ 55:21 Anish Acharya Another great example of this is cursor. 6 times in the scene
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 38:26 Harry Stebbings Claw code, cursor, codex? 3 times in the scene
GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
- ▶ 4:28 Jason Calacanis After Anthropic was running away with it, Grok and GrokBot are doing things that those two other frontier models simply can't do, so the execution, whether it's the harness or the underlying model, or the instruction set, or cursor's magic…
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 0:27 unnamed speaker Cursor.
- ▶ 10:13 Jason Lemkin This is much better than cursor going from whatever a CAD tool.
- ▶ 10:51 Harry Stebbings Obviously, we saw over the weekend, OpenAI cuts off cursor. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:40 Harry Stebbings When you got Claw Code doing what it is, when you got Cursor doing what it is, when you got 1.6 billion from Cognition by the end of the year? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:55 Jason Lemkin I don't, did you guys see the cursor deal? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:14 Rory O'Driscoll We just discussed OpenAI cutting off cursor.
How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company
- ▶ 16:43 Tanay Tandon Uh, and, uh, there's more customization required and more implementation time required when you work with a large system, but our long-term belief is that the best software products, you look at Microsoft Word, you look at Google Docs, you…
Shipping Enterprise AI Agents with the CPOs of Rubrik, Glean, and Harvey
- ▶ 9:07 Chief Product Officer, Glean On one part, you can use Glean as the AI assistant, as the front door, but also, Glean actually serves the system of intelligence as a single MCP server if you want to use your own favorite AI assistant, like Cloud Code, Cursor, Codex, 2 times in the scene
Can AI Learn Mathematical Intuition?
Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 29:00 unnamed speaker Cursor, sixty billion.
Nobody Wakes Up Excited to Use Software - So He Built This Instead
- ▶ 23:32 Sean Weisbrot I mean, I wake up every morning being excited to, to play with cursor and to talk to Claude and to talk to Bordy and to play my guitar. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:26 Sean Weisbrot So this is a interesting challenge that I find for myself as well, where, so I use cursor for everything, and in doing so, Claude has access to all of my GitHub repositories that are locally stored on my computer as well.
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
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- ▶ 5:38 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Replit, Sierra, Clay, and hundreds of other winning companies all have in common?
- ▶ 52:47 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, funny enough, she suggested questions for the previous podcast, uh, conversation I did with Adam Ward from Cursor.
Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
- ▶ 36:45 Harry Stebbings How much does it help you or hurt you that Cursor was bought by SpaceX? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:39 Harry Stebbings And then I'm also like, peak froth, but also, cursor just sold for sixty billion dollars after four years.
- ▶ 1:21:58 Harry Stebbings Codex, Cursor, Cognition, Claw Code. 3 times in the scene
Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
- ▶ 14:53 David Friedberg And then I did the earnings call with Mark because, you know, about a year ago, I think I mentioned this to you, Chamath, like we kind of over a weekend built a CRM tool internally using a cloud code and cursor and stuff and kind of spun…
- ▶ 28:49 Chamath Palihapitiya The hundred engineers that are going over to NVIDIA, they could be working on, ah, what Poolside has, which is effectively a version of Cursor and Cloud Code that runs, you know, on-prem, that runs in a-
Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
- ▶ 5:02 Rory O'Driscoll It's what we're talking about last week in Cursor, and I'm sorry if I'm rambling a little.
- ▶ 21:59 Jason Lemkin The related thing I was thinking on that crawl data, you know, if you go back to cursor, right, uh, sixty billion we talked about last week, this was one of the classic ones where the VCI VCs were right. 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.
Ex-NVIDIA Engineer: Why AI Is About to Get 1000x Cheaper
- ▶ 3:50 Neil Movva And they were pulled in that direction by one very important customer, uh, Cursor.
- ▶ 10:54 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Visa, Vercel, Cursor, Stripe, Notion, 11 Labs, Shopify, and 70,000 other businesses all now run on Ramp. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:12 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Vanta automates security and compliance for over 16,000 fast-moving companies like Ramp, Cursor, and Harvey, keeping them audit-ready around the clock.
- ▶ 1:23:09 Patrick O'Shaughnessy The best AI and software companies from open AI to cursor to perplexity use WorkOS to become enterprise ready overnight, not in months.
Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 1:18:55 Julien Bek Um, it's probably cursor.
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 9:39 Jerry Murdock I think cursor was pretty smart in the, the base 10 contracts from last year with cursor.
- ▶ 40:46 Harry Stebbings We have cursor scaling to sixty billion sale in four years. 4 times in the scene
Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up
- ▶ 58:00 Chamath Palihapitiya Let me, let me, let me just say, you know, you've been seeing like the distribution of like cursor and then SpaceX. 3 times in the scene
Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings SpaceX closes the sixty billion dollar all stock takeover of Cursor.
- ▶ 1:12 Harry Stebbings SpaceX closes the sixty billion dollar all stock takeover of cursor, minting thousand X returns for the likes of Alipartovia Neo. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:04 Jason Lemkin I wanted to buy cursor. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:29 Rory O'Driscoll And again, it's, it's, it's, it's some version of the same thing as the cursor comment. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:44 Rory O'Driscoll You get a free pass, and it's like, it's the same thing we said about Cursor.
- ▶ 50:44 Rory O'Driscoll You see cursor for details, see open router for details, right?
- ▶ 1:03:17 Jason Lemkin I do think today, I know the engineers and developers will mock me for saying this, but I do think that they deserve us, arguably a somewhat similar to be in the cursor conversation. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:54 Jason Lemkin I mean, if Martin Casato had to step off the board of Fivetran after exiting cursor at sixty billion, it's probably okay given their position in Databricks.
What Happens When the AI Boom Runs Out of Money · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 14:21 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Visa, Vercel, Cursor, Stripe, Notion, 11 Labs, Shopify, and 70,000 other businesses all now run on Ramp. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:20 Ben Thompson From a tactical perspective, I love the cursor acquisition, like that makes so much sense for both companies, and so I've been intrigued to see what they do.
- ▶ 1:12:35 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Vanta automates security and compliance for over 16,000 fast moving companies like Ramp, Cursor, and Harvey, keeping them audit ready around the clock.
- ▶ 1:25:27 Patrick O'Shaughnessy The best AI and software companies from OpenAI to Cursor to Perplexity use WorkOS to become enterprise ready overnight, not in months.
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?
Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
- ▶ 10:36 David Sacks I don't know if it was because they saw Curser. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:00 Gavin Baker XAI, you know, SpaceX is, you know, almost certain, you know, they have a right to acquire cursor, they're working with cursor, so maybe this is grading your own homework. 3 times in the scene
Kushner & Iger’s $12.5B Lakers Deal, Grok 4.6 Launches, Anthropic’s Watermarking Move | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:51 unnamed speaker Uh, Grok 4.7 will be significantly better, as is a much larger model with the cursor and SpaceX data included in pre-training. 2 times in the scene
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 19:17 Rory O'Driscoll Some of the coding tools, I think even, they didn't have a big business, but I think Windsurf and even, um, come on, Cursor were doing something else right at the start, but because they were super small, they pivoted in 22 really fast.
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
🔬They Thought the Model Was Broken — Matt McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery
- ▶ 51:21 Neil Patil Like maybe like right now we have something a little bit more akin to cursor where you're
AI Agents Are Creating A Data Explosion. Here's What To Do About It. — With Clint Sharp
- ▶ 12:22 Clint Sharp I think there probably are, ah, I think there's more likely to come from like a cursor or, or somebody else where they're actually, you know, definitively building their own models based off of, based off of this data, and those data sets…
Everyone Is Still Undersizing the AI Market | Eric Vishria · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 10:13 Eric Vishria That blue chip enterprise AI is not like well absorbed and well adopted and not, not the same thing as going to cursor and, you know, walking the halls of cursor versus, um, walking the halls of, you know, a big New York financial services…
- ▶ 11:57 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Visa, Vercel, Cursor, Stripe, Notion, 11 Lab, Shopify, and 70,000 other businesses all run on Ramp. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:29 Eric Vishria You saw the evolution of cursor from like IDE to like tap autocomplete to agentic work like over and over and over again. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:28 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Vanta automates security and compliance for over 16,000 fast-moving companies like Ramp, Cursor, and Harvey, keeping them audit-ready around the clock.
- ▶ 1:17:41 Patrick O'Shaughnessy The best AI and software companies from OpenAI AI to Cursor to Perplexity use WorkOS to become enterprise-ready overnight, not in months.
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