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Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers, Apple’s Leadership Shakeup, SpaceX Prepares For IPO | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:55 unnamed speaker For anyone who doesn't understand, cursor processes more tokens than Salesforce all-time figure every six days. 2 times in the scene
Cloudflare Outage, iMessages in Gemini 3, 𝕏 Reactions to Gemini 3 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:16 Jordi Hays Which IDE did they use to build anti-gravity, Windsurf, or Curser?
Wednesday’s Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:21 John Coogan If it was April Fools and, and Michael Truel at cursor or Scott Wu with windsurf, we're like, we're doing, we're doing a brain rod version of the IDE. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:02 unnamed speaker And it's like, it's actually works way better than cursor.
- ▶ 19:43 John Coogan It, they're always, you know, a year or two or five behind cursor and windsurf.
How to Build an $11B Empire Selling Funko Pops | Whatnot CEO Grant Lafontaine Joins TBPN
- ▶ 29:38 Grant LaFontaine I think everyone's, like, there's, there's the obvious spots where, like, yes, everyone uses cursor, and, you know, whether you're an engineer or not, you can prototype and build stuff faster.
a16z Crypto Managing Partner Chris Dixon Live on TBPN
- ▶ 9:57 Chris Dixon Like United app, the last one to do it five years from now or whatever, but the startups are all using it using like cursor. 2 times in the scene
Mark Zuckerberg, James Cameron, Andrew Yang and More - TBPN Top 5
- ▶ 19:24 Alexander Wang Like, ChatGPT was one of the first products that we had, and Chat was one of the first products, and it still is the dominant product for AI delivery, and then on Code, you've seen innovation with, like, you know, Cursor and Code and all…
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
Perplexity's Offer to Buy Google Chrome for $34.5 BILLION Explained
- ▶ 9:05 unnamed speaker So it's like cloud code, cursor a little bit, sometimes I just go raw, chatgbt.com.
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 27:29 John Coogan The top was Curser at five hundred million in annual revenue, uh, and they're making 3.2 million dollars in revenue per employee. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:21 unnamed speaker So it's like cloud code, cursor a little bit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48:06 Everett Randle Like, you know, everyone loves to talk about Cursor and Chris Paik over at Pace Capital had this, 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 19:21 John Coogan And, uh, ChatGPT would love to have, uh, their cursor competitor or their Claude code competitor codex really, really take off.
- ▶ 37:43 John Coogan So, you know, if it's, if it's fifty-fifty by default, all of a sudden, cursor and windsurf start pulling 80% of the gross margin dollars from what they're adding on top, well then, the underlying foundation model is gonna say, like, hey,… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:06 John Coogan Uh, and so if you created like cursor just for like rewriting Fortran, it's like, that's not sexy at all. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:05 John Coogan Uh, cursor has no channel partners and this will cost our firm millions. 3 times in the scene
ELON MUSK's Grok New Vulgar Anime Mode
- ▶ 8:10 unnamed speaker Uh, ChatGPT would love to have, uh, their cursor competitor or their cloud code competitor codex really, really take off.
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 2:37:02 unnamed speaker It's interesting because I saw Riley Brown also posted the cursor for web browser and D browser.
DWARKESH PATEL on the Biggest Problem of AI
- ▶ 12:36 Jordi Hays Like, people talk about cursor a lot, right?
- ▶ 17:24 unnamed speaker The cursor roll ups, the summary lines,
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 12:58 Jordi Hays But as, as some of these, you know, new coding, uh, Cogen tools came out, Claude Code, Cursor, Devon, et cetera, were, did you feel like you could add maybe a few more jobs?
- ▶ 2:59:06 Will Depue And then it took until cursor for it to really like, I think cursor plus like three, five summit was when it became a thing that was good enough that people were excited about it. 2 times in the scene
Soham Parekh Breaks His Silence (First Interview)
- ▶ 7:19 unnamed speaker But as, as some of these, you know, new coding, uh, Cogen tools came out, Claude Code, Cursor, Devon, et cetera.
Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- ▶ 35:52 John Coogan Are you cursor guy? 6 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 13:44 Jordi Hays Got ramp, open AI, cursor, runway, perplexity,
- ▶ 1:57:33 George Hotz Open AI, Anthropic, and then on top you have, like, completely worthless things like cursor and windsurf, um, you know, these character AI, all these people who think, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:59:02 George Hotz So OpenAI, Anthropic will eat all the value from the cursors in the wind surface of the world.
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 43:44 John Coogan Still has a long way to go to catch up to AI first IDEs like cursor, but again, partnering with a foundation model maker seems like a much smarter strategy than Apple trying to do everything itself.
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 1:21:01 Brian Armstrong So, I mean, the basic ones you probably know, it's like, we got, we onboarded all of our engineers to co-pilot and cursor and everything like that.
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day
- ▶ 22:26 unnamed speaker Um, we think that those games are pretty good, like, PreJS games are like, like, they're pretty good, but we think that there's a ceiling as to how good games can be built on Curser, but at certain points, like, 2 times in the scene
Missing PayPal and Google Made Him a Better Investor | Ali Partovi on TBPN
- ▶ 0:28 Ali Partovi It's our fourth fund on the heels of really successful bets on companies that we were the seed investor in, like Cursor, Kalshi, Blue Sky, and many more.
- ▶ 3:06 Ali Partovi Neo-scholars have founded companies like Cursor, Pika, Cognition, Chai Discovery, and many more, and, um, and at this point, it's an institutional system, not just like one person going around with a knack to make investments.
- ▶ 11:58 Ali Partovi Well, I mean, the one to talk about is, uh, Michael Truel, the CEO, now the CEO of Cursor.
Why Patience Is the Secret to Building Iconic Companies | Mike Vernal on TBPN
- ▶ 23:57 Mike Vernal Um, well, I mean, certainly there are, there are things that are working, like obviously Cursor, um, Cursor is working in a gigantic way. 2 times in the scene
Why Humor Is the True Test of AI Intelligence | Will Brown on TBPN
- ▶ 14:00 Will Brown A reason that Windsurf has been successful as a Cursor competitor is they, they lean way harder on enterprise than Cursor has. 6 times in the scene
What AI and LEGO Have in Common | Flo Crivello on TBPN April 7th
- ▶ 16:31 unnamed speaker If you're using cursor internally to write code and help you ship faster, there's, you know, if you make, if the, if cursor makes a mistake, you know, you sort of can have the opportunity to correct it. 2 times in the scene
Are AI AGENTS Learning to DREAM? | Shawn Wang on TBPN April 4th
- ▶ 6:05 unnamed speaker The devins, the cursors, like, why is it so hard?
- ▶ 18:07 Shawn 'swyx' Wang We've, we've effectively gone from, like, single line autocomplete to, like, functions autocomplete, and now with, like, Windsurf and Cloud Code and, um, Copilot and Cursor, we're generating basically entire apps, um, and NPRs, uh, for… 2 times in the scene
Is AI RUINING How We THINK? | David Perell on TBPN April 4th
- ▶ 12:17 David Perell And then on the other side, like, you know, you just think of the super cracked engineer who is really good with cursor, really good at writing.
Why LPs Are Using STABLECOINS to INVEST in Startups | Avlok Kohli on TBPN April 4th
- ▶ 9:38 unnamed speaker You claim to be cursor for dogs, but what does that really work?
Dwarkesh Patel (Dwarkesh Podcast) on The Scaling Hypothesis, AI and China
- ▶ 24:47 Dwarkesh Patel Um, and I wonder if other things that, other, like, features of AGI will be similar, where if you don't, um, if you don't deploy it to a bunch of engineers on Cursor, you just, like, won't know what it would actually make something a good
Chris Power (Hadrian) on Building Autonomous Factories
- ▶ 5:18 John Coogan Like there's no cursor for cam that you're like on top of and just plugging in to speed things up.
Immad Akhund (Mercury) on Fintech, AI and What's Next
- ▶ 14:22 unnamed speaker Cursor, Cloud Code, and Devon, Cognition in the mix.
Amjad Masad on Replit, AI Agents, and the Death of Traditional Software.
- ▶ 4:52 Amjad Masad And so, uh, I think where vibe coding goes wrong is when a beginner is using cursor, some other platform, great product, but they don't give them guardrails.
- ▶ 12:29 unnamed speaker They're using cursor one week, and then cloud code the next week, and then they're bouncing to this one. 2 times in the scene
Jake Adler on Raising $3M to "Make Soldiers Heal Faster and Think Smarter".
- ▶ 13:55 unnamed speaker Download the app and verify that it's a real thing like they can with a cursor, for example.
"I Partner with People" - Chad Byers talks about Venture, Fitness, and Being a Chad.
- ▶ 21:04 Chad Byers If you think about, we had like cursors, literally like, you know,
The GREAT VC AI DEBATE between Slow Ventures and Greylock Partners.
- ▶ 25:32 Seth Rosenberg Cursor? 4 times in the scene
Trae Stephens talks Flock Safety, Anduril, and American Dynamism.
- ▶ 2:08 unnamed speaker Although, uh, you know, we were joking about, uh, it used to be Uber for dogs at YC, now it's Andrel for dogs, but there, it really was cursor for dogs actually yesterday.
Nic Carter talks crypto, meme coins, and the regulatory environment.
- ▶ 29:22 unnamed speaker I see a lot of demos of people building games with Claude code, for example, or cursor, but I don't see a lot of people, uh, saying like this game is completely AI generated and it's a mobile game and we're printing millions of dollars and…
Packy McCormick Breaks Down Ramp's New $13B Valuation and Where He's Investing Right Now.
- ▶ 10:10 Jordi Hays And I think we're really seeing that right now in AI where you have companies like cursor, a big one, you know, with 20 people doing a hundred million of ARR.
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 1:04:02 John Coogan I mean, people have wired it up to cursor immediately.
- ▶ 1:55:37 John Coogan Um, I mean, it, it, it really is like so underrated how everyone's like, oh, cursor and Devin make it so easy to like things. 2 times in the scene
DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- ▶ 2:17:08 John Coogan Uh, Ray says, cursor is down. 4 times in the scene
DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- ▶ 2:40:00 John Coogan From Trey Stevens at Founders Fund, he's, uh, quote tweeting Zach Johnson, who says, ByteDance has released an IDE, a cursor IDE competitor called Trey.
The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief
- ▶ 2:03:33 John Coogan So it didn't even need to, like, install Python on this computer, on this laptop, and, like, set up an environment, and then you get a cursor, and that's more advanced, and then you get Devon, and that's even more advanced, and it's just…
How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List)
- ▶ 35:07 John Coogan That's true and happening with cursor and Devon.