Cursor

11 statements across 10 episodes · 5 bullish · 5 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Apr 4, 2025 by Prayank Swaroop · said 47 times in 20 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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brought up most by Siddhartha Ahluwalia (9), Sudheesh Nair (5), Manish Jindal (5), Matt MacInnis (4), Umesh Padval (3), Rohit Agarwal (2), Prayank Swaroop (2), Animesh Koratana (2)

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2026 34 mentions in 11 episodes 3 per episode
2025 13 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode

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Everything said about Cursor, oldest first

Apr 4, 2025 positive
Insight
Swaroop: Building a GPT wrapper is acceptable if it proves customer value
“It's okay if you're a rapper on GPT, because you want to establish customer value first. If you have established customer, if you are getting customers, everything else will follow, right?”
Prayank Swaroop Apr 4, 2025 ▶ 24:27 How Accel Deploys $650M in India & Manages $5B in Growth + Late Stage | Prayank Swaroop
Jul 11, 2025 negative
Opinion
Zuora CIO: AI tools will make enterprises rethink hiring entry-level engineers
“If I have to hire an entry level analyst or an engineer or a designer, I will think twice. Because investing in these tools, whether it is Vercel or Windsurf or Cursor, I will be thinking twice, okay, do I need an entry level software engineer? Do I need an en…”
Karthik Chakkarapani Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 14:00 What Startups Can Learn from a $1.7B Co. Chief Information Officer | Karthik Chakkarapani
Oct 22, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Toshniwal: OpenAI and Anthropic will eventually cannibalize coding agents like Cursor
“If you don't create enough of a deep expertise in a certain area, you know, ChatGPT, Anthropic, they are going to cut into you, which you are seeing probably with coding agents, you know, Windsurf and Cursor. Clearly they have grown very fast, but I expect Cha…”
Ashish Toshniwal Oct 22, 2025 ▶ 58:00 How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal
Feb 13, 2026 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Padval: $500M ARR in AI coding requires billions in compute costs
“What I heard is the five hundred million of ARR needs about six hundred million of investment from the LLM company they have to pay, which also requires hosting costs from Amazon and the hyperscalers of seven hundred million, and that needs chips worth eight h…”
Umesh Padval Feb 13, 2026 ▶ 4:40 Is AI changing EVEN the Top Roles in startups?
Mar 19, 2026 positive
Insight
Agarwal: Claude Code and Cursor act as harnesses for underlying models
“There's a new class of these applications called harnesses, which are becoming very popular, so look at ClaudeCode, Cursor. They're essentially harnesses in a way that they're applications, but they help you use the underlying models a lot better.”
Rohit Agarwal Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 3:33 Which AI Model are companies actually Paying For in 2026? | Rohit Agarwal, Portkey
Apr 2, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Jindal: Claude Code and Cursor are the world's most powerful AI agents
“The two agents in the world right now which are, like, truly the most powerful is the cloud code and the cursor. Those agents are amazingly, insanely good.”
Manish Jindal Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 1:09:29 Why "Boring" Infrastructure is the Best Path to a $60B Company | Manish Jindal, Cloudflare & Arize
Apr 2, 2026
Disclosure
Jindal: Arize uses Cursor over BigQuery to eliminate internal data analysts
“Even in my current company all our systems data, like Salesforce, HubSpot, and everything even Gong data, we actually put into BigQuery, you know, every data, and then we have we have cursor sitting on top of BigQuery, and if anything I want, I just ask cursor…”
Manish Jindal Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 19:27 Why "Boring" Infrastructure is the Best Path to a $60B Company | Manish Jindal, Cloudflare & Arize
Apr 16, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Nair: Tinyfish engineer Cursor usage fell from 83% to single digits
“My company used to have around 83% of the company engineers were cursor, today it is like less than single digit.”
Sudheesh Nair Apr 16, 2026 ▶ 31:07 After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix
May 10, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siddharth Ahluwalia claims developers ignore enterprise-purchased Copilot, Codex, and Cursor
“Cursor Codex by OpenAI and Copilot by Microsoft, they have all sold to the enterprises. But developers are not using them.”
Siddhartha Ahluwalia May 10, 2026 ▶ 21:34 How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
May 20, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Koratana: Cursor and AI tools increase development pace 5x to 10x
“As cloud code comes in, as cursor comes in, like we're all feeling this already at all of our companies. Just the pace of development is, you know, five X, 10 X.”
Animesh Koratana May 20, 2026 ▶ 27:54 Great Founders Aren't Writing Code. They're Building Its Immune System. | Animesh, PlayerZero
Jul 17, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Afore Capital holds Cursor stock through its acquisition of Koala
“A company comes to mind called Koala that we invested in repeat founders, I believe, on a segment that was a pretty expensive deal for us to get into. They were doing well, they raised a series A, and then they actually got acquired by Cursor, and we got Curso…”
Gaurav Jain Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 34:21 We Turned Pre-Seed Into a $10 Billion Category | Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital
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