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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
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
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.
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan
- ▶ 37:11 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Plaid, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- ▶ 10:13 Sherwin Wu It is now literally incantations, because you can tell, you know, your, uh, you can tell codex, you can tell cursor, uh, exactly what you want to do, uh, and then it'll go do it for you.
- ▶ 13:41 Sherwin Wu And then instead of using codecs, I might use like tab complete and, and cursor and, and things like that.
- ▶ 58:21 Sherwin Wu Like, even in very competitive spaces like coding, like, cursor is huge at this point, and it's because they build something that people really love, and so my general advice is like, don't, you know, don't overly stress about this, just…
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
- ▶ 13:48 Lazar Yovanovich Whether somebody's doing a cursor or cloud code doesn't matter where you are.
- ▶ 22:32 Lazar Yovanovich Open Cursor, Lovable, whatever it is that you're using, and just input a brain dump prompt, right?
- ▶ 34:01 Lazar Yovanovich Cloud code or, or, or cursor have what's known as rules.md or agent.md.
- ▶ 38:41 Lazar Yovanovich Any tool, lovable or cursor or plot, whatever tool you, you talk about is gonna do this.
- ▶ 49:59 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Platt, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
- ▶ 1:07:09 Lazar Yovanovich So it can't see that the problem exists because Lovable, Cursor, Cloud Code, you name it, all these tools are good enough today to fix any problem they're aware of. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:04 Lenny Rachitsky And this connects to something Michael Terrell shared, the CEO of Cursor when he was on the podcast. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:21 Lenny Rachitsky Basically vibe coding is just, they had all these workflows, all these files, and then cursor adds them, level adds them.
How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- ▶ 0:19 Lenny Rachitsky These days you're using cursor with Claude Code. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24 Lenny Rachitsky Zevi is super young and has no technical background, but as a smart, young, ambitious person, has learned how to use cursor and cloud code to build significant and real products completely on his own, and he's created his own very clever… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:50 Zevi Arnovitz I think if you see this where I'm working like in, uh, Claude or in cursor, you might be excited to start using those, but I would really recommend starting slow, uh, with a GPT project. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:47 Zevi Arnovitz I pulled up cursor. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:57 Lenny Rachitsky Now the CTO is living inside here in cursor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:22 Zevi Arnovitz So cursor has an amazing model called composer, which is super fast. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:58 Zevi Arnovitz So now I think we're going to do this with cursor just cause, uh, composer's so fricking fast. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:37 Zevi Arnovitz But what's even cooler and something that I'm really proud of is I will usually do multiple reviews and I'll have Codex, which is ChatGPT's competitor to Cloud Code, as well as cursor open, and I will have each of them review the code. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:47 Lenny Rachitsky And again, all this stuff is going to be available where people can just plug this stuff into their cursor account and use it themselves. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:25 Lenny Rachitsky Okay, so your advice here is, as a PM, don't, maybe don't go right to cursor, start building shipping, trying to ship features to production, especially complicated features. 2 times in the scene
How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
- ▶ 45:52 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Platt, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
- ▶ 1:10:50 Sam Lessin Well, both actually, like I actually, the vibe coding thing, this is exactly what vibe coding is good for is like, this is like, you know, cursor and digital ocean and cloud flare will get you a long way in terms of just like building this…
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- ▶ 21:38 Jason Lemkin And we're already seeing lots of folks cut back on entry-level hires, you know, Shopify's and others aside where they'd rather have the six or seven-year-old engineer that's a cursor machine rather than train some kid.
- ▶ 1:21:08 Jason Lemkin I literally just, when I was in London, I built a whole app where you can sell, you can practice selling Harvey, cursor, Replit, and ChatGPT enterprise, and it works.
- ▶ 1:25:02 Jason Lemkin Now everyone in the world wants to build an AISDRA CRM, but marketing is slower just because they're really, people don't really want to build the cursor for marketing.
The new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year
- ▶ 3:15 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Plaid, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
- ▶ 1:09:02 Lenny Rachitsky Should I join a cursor?
Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- ▶ 3:02 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Platt, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
- ▶ 14:54 Lenny Rachitsky When people think about cursor and even cloud code, it's like a IDE that helps you code and kind of auto-completes code and maybe does some agentic work.
- ▶ 35:49 Lenny Rachitsky When I had, uh, Michael Turell, the CEO of Cursor on the podcast, he had this kind of vision of us moving to something beyond code.
The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
- ▶ 3:50 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Plaid, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
- ▶ 18:12 Lenny Rachitsky So when you say those companies, meaning like the development agents, like Cursors and Devins and such. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:17 Tomer Cohen Uh, even if you're learning it for the first time and so on, whether it's cursor or whether it's a design with Figma or other tools or lovable, you should be ready to invest those hours before you start seeing yourself pick up in velocity…
Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 2:59 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Platt, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (co-founder)
- ▶ 1:09:06 Lenny Rachitsky Do you built it with like, like AI prototyping tools, like cursor lovable, something like that?
From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo
- ▶ 22:01 Lenny Rachitsky Like I'm guessing cursor, but curious if there's anything else.
- ▶ 24:09 Julie Zhuo We can use cursor.
- ▶ 1:27:57 Julie Zhuo Cursor is, is big on me for, for now.
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
- ▶ 9:43 Lenny Rachitsky There's Vibe Coding Apps, Cursor, and Lovable, and Bolt, and Replit, and all these VZero.
- ▶ 21:50 Brendan Foody And so we'll give people interviews where we say, use ChatGPT and Codex, use Cloud Code, use whatever tool cursor and whatever tools are available to build a website.
$46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)
- ▶ 1:31 Lenny Rachitsky They're investors in OpenAI, Cursor, Android, Databricks, Figma, basically every generational tech company.
- ▶ 1:05:48 Ben Horowitz So like we're in this company, Corsair, and if you look under the covers in Corsair, 3 times in the scene
How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 18:30 Howie Liu Like, you know, I basically want to always ask the question, like how would an AI native company, like a cursor or windsurf, et cetera, like how would they execute? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:17 Howie Liu Like I think cursor did a great job of like being an early pioneer of this more agentic way of leveraging the models to, to do more complex things and generate more, you know, kind of larger chunks of code. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:27 Howie Liu And now with composer, you can literally just go into cursor and build an app from scratch, like build me a three shooter game from scratch and just watch it go and like create all the files and fill out each file.
- ▶ 1:28:21 Howie Liu Like anyone can download cursor and just start like asking composer to generate some code for you and then looking at the code and trying to figure out what it does.
How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- ▶ 6:22 Lenny Rachitsky So when I hear this, what I'm thinking about is when I had Michael Terrell on the podcast, the Cursor CEO, he talked a lot about how their big mode is the data that they capture from people using Cursor, selecting, accepting certain… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:04 Asha Sharma Obviously, in, in the coding space you mentioned, Cursor, GitHub has very similar features that we're using kind of as an ensemble of models that have been fine-tuned across, you know, uh,
- ▶ 48:07 Lenny Rachitsky Yeah, I forget, I know Cursor, when he was on the podcast, he shared that they have a bunch of models that, that support your experience with Cursor, and over time they're just gonna have their own thing. 2 times in the scene
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord
- ▶ 3:38 Lenny Rachitsky It's available in VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
- ▶ 7:28 Brian Balfour It's gotten easier in some very exceptional cases, like a cursor or something where AI has kind of been like the spark, you know, I know you wrote, uh, the blog post about the race car engine. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:00 Brian Balfour I believe, you know, cursor is very clear, like cursor's on the path to also probably create some type of agent platform, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:01 Brian Balfour Now, look, you've already seen players that are, have been able to hit this escape velocity, uh, you know, the, the cursors and stuff of the world.
- ▶ 1:00:23 Lenny Rachitsky It's interesting that another way to think about this model you've described as building the strategy of building on top of LLMs and becoming a GPT wrapper, because essentially this tech allows you to say, create a cursor that is…
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- ▶ 1:09:25 Bret Taylor So, for example, I, uh, almost every software engineering firm I know uses something like Cursor to help their, their software engineers. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:59 Bret Taylor I'm really a big fan of, uh, cursor. 5 times in the scene
Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam
- ▶ 40:43 Madhavan Ramanujam If you take cursor, for instance,
- ▶ 45:24 Lenny Rachitsky Like, is it like, okay, I'm like cursor. 2 times in the scene
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- ▶ 2:53 Lenny Rachitsky It's available in VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
- ▶ 13:23 Dan Shipper You've got cursor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:20 Lenny Rachitsky So you guys are at where Michael from cursor said we will be.
Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
- ▶ 42:35 Lenny Rachitsky Like, like cursor, you basically is competing on.
Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- ▶ 22:04 Maor Shlomo And so I spent a lot of time thinking and agonizing about how to structure the code repository, uh, for example, so that I can use, uh, Kersel for backend and base for the four for front end to write like code really fast.
- ▶ 23:06 Lenny Rachitsky So you said cursor base, 44, what else did you use day to day that helped you be more efficient? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:50 Lenny Rachitsky This idea of bootstrapping, I'm curious, so essentially you're competing against very well-funded companies, Lavable, Bolt, Replit, VZero, Vercel, Cursor raised, I don't know, a bazillion dollars at this point. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:11 Maor Shlomo Obviously Kelser, but again, I was spending 20, 30% of my time just optimizing. 4 times in the scene
Naming expert shares process for creating billion-dollar brands: Vercel, Azure, Windsurf, Sonos
- ▶ 39:30 Lenny Rachitsky Cursor was AnySphere, Bolt was StackBlitz, Windsurf, Codium, basically everyone.
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- ▶ 31:51 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, and she, she, I asked her about like, why didn't Copilot, like the fastest growing companies in the world, Cursor, Windsurf, Lovable Bolt, all these guys, like Copilot was so ahead of these, these companies and, and these companies… 3 times in the scene
AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff
- ▶ 1:08:09 Sander Schulhoff There's, there's Cursor, there's, I guess, Windsurf, Devon, Copilot.
Mercado Libre: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, & their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios
- ▶ 15:52 Sebastian Barrios I think it's just accelerating everything we do on, on the actual coding side, of course, it started as like advanced autocomplete, and now you have agentic frameworks and cursor and windsurf.
Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- ▶ 43:06 Lenny Rachitsky You guys launched MCP, which is just like, I don't know, the fastest growing standard of, of any time in history that everyone's adopting, uh, clawed powered and unlocked, essentially the fastest growing companies in the world, cursor,…
- ▶ 47:51 Lenny Rachitsky Like also, are you guys gonna buy cursor? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:23 Mike Krieger Cursor bench, which doesn't exist other than in, you know, their usage and their own testing, et cetera, is like the thing that we ultimately need to serve, not just cursor, but Manus bench, right? 2 times in the scene
Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 0:53 Lenny Rachitsky I just saw that cursor hit three hundred million ARR in two years.
- ▶ 45:29 Lenny Rachitsky So there's these companies like Cursor, VZero, Lovable, Bolt, Replit that are like the fastest growing companies in history. 2 times in the scene
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- ▶ 50:25 Lenny Rachitsky People can just, you know, open up cursor, windsurf, and just start adding features.
Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
- ▶ 11:03 Scott Wu Uh, my other co-founder Walden was an early engineer at a company called cursor, which is also obviously grown a lot and done really well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:20 Lenny Rachitsky Anthropics got something there, you know, cursor and windsurf have their own little agents and replit.
- ▶ 1:00:28 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, we had Michael from, uh, cursor, the C of cursor on the podcast, and he had a similar point of just, he thinks smotes are just kind of like consumer, like Google is the way he thinks it's like Google where people can easily switch. 2 times in the scene
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
- ▶ 0:00 Michael Truell Our goal with Cursor is to invent a new type of programming, a very different way to build software. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:58 Lenny Rachitsky Michael is co-founder and CEO of AnySphere, the company behind Cursor. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:46 Michael Truell Our, our goal with Cursor is to invent, ah, sort of a new type of programming, um, a very different way to build software that's kind of just distilled down into you describing the intent to the computer for what you want in the most…
- ▶ 12:40 Lenny Rachitsky I'm gonna come back to these topics, but I want to actually zoom us back out to the beginnings of cursor. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:18 Lenny Rachitsky Is that something that fits into Cursor one day?
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