Cursor

8 statements across 6 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Aug 21, 2025 by Peter Walker · said 50 times in 15 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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brought up most by Simon Eskildsen (21), Pablo Srugo (6), Andrew Filev (6), Peter Walker (4), Soham Ganatra (2), Roy Lee (2), George Kurdin (2), Soham Mazumdar (1)

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Aug 21, 2025 positive
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Walker: Leading AI B2B companies succeed with B2C-style go-to-market models
“A lot of the biggest successes so far with AI native companies function in B to B spaces, but sell as though they're B to C companies like cursor can be bought by any dev.”
Peter Walker Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 34:44 Q2 2025: The new Series A Bar is $3M ARR—& only 20% of seed startups make it. | Peter Walker, Hea... · PMF Show
Sep 2, 2025 bullish
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Rubrik Reached $1 Million ARR in About Two Quarters
“I would say, like two quarters, two-ish quarters, I would say. It was quick. It was, I mean, again, like, look, don't compare us to cursor, right? I mean, that's a, Different. Yeah, these days Quake has taken on a whole new meaning, but. Like, think about it. …”
Soham Mazumdar Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 22:44 He quit Google, launched Rubrik—then grew to $1B ARR & a $16B market cap. | Soham Mazumdar, Co-Fo... · PMF Show
Sep 10, 2025 positive
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Model Context Protocol creates value by enabling user-driven extensible integrations
“And so, MCP enables the second kind of integrations, which is like you could turn any sort of smart software into an extensible thing so that as a user, you could say, hey, I want my specific software like cursor to connect with Jira, right? Because Jira is wh…”
Soham Ganatra Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 47:49 He quit his job, went all-in on AI agents—then grew to 100K users & a $30M Series A in a year. | ... · PMF Show
Oct 30, 2025 positive
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Eskildsen: Turbopuffer reduced Cursor's database bill by 95%
“Over the course of a week, they migrated everything that they had, and their first bill was 95% smaller. Then there's six figure bill that they had before, right? So they went from a six figure bill to a four figure bill.”
Simon Eskildsen Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 26:58 He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskild... · PMF Show
Oct 30, 2025
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Eskildsen: Turbopuffer reached $1M ARR about one year after launch
“We reached a million in ARR about a year after we launched, but we had more customers then than just a cursor. We also had Notion and a bunch of other customers.”
Simon Eskildsen Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 28:53 He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskild... · PMF Show
Oct 30, 2025 neutral
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Eskildsen: Notion's database workload exceeded Cursor's in July 2024
“And at this time, like that, that workload was like, was bigger than Cursor.”
Simon Eskildsen Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 45:00 He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskild... · PMF Show
Jan 5, 2026 neutral
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Operating without PMs only works when engineers build for themselves
“There was this viral thread about how Twitter or how Cursor doesn't have PMs. And I think Linear also said something similar. And people are like, yeah, we should have PMs. And That actually makes sense, but you have to really think about for whom it makes sen…”
Siqi Chen Jan 5, 2026 ▶ 18:24 It took him 4 years to launch—then he hit $1M ARR in 30 days. | Siqi Chen, Founder of Runway · PMF Show
Mar 19, 2026 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Haroun: Tech companies using AI tools are hiring more developers, not fewer
“Everyone in the Valley or really any tech company at this point is now using Maybe previously cursor increasingly clod or whatever the mechanism is right to no longer write any code manually, but we're not hiring fewer developers. We're hiring way more.”
Omar Haroun Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 18:12 How he grew his AI startup from $2M to $20M ARR in 12 months. | Omar Haroun, Co-Founder of Eudia · PMF Show
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