Anysphere

“They recently hit a nine billion dollar valuation and are one of the fastest growing startups of all time, reaching a hundred million dollars ARR just 20 months after launching.”

“Now in Cursor, we do over half a billion model calls per day on our own inference.”

“And I think rules of thumb around don't grow headcount more than 50% or year over year. Yeah. Have to be broken, I think.”

“For us, the main activity metric we looked at, or the, yeah, the main top line metric we looked at revenue. We looked at paid power users measured by, are you using the AI four or five days a week out of seven days a week? And that was the number we were tryin…”

“Yeah, the goal with the company is to replace coding with something that's much better.”

“So for interviewing, we actually still interview people without allowing them to use AI other than autocomplete for our first technical screens.”

“I think that it was from lines of code to first public beta release, it was three months. But then there was this year of iterating in public at very small scale where we had, did not have lightning in the model.”

“And looking back on the time we spent on that, I think it would have been better up front to actually just go work at a company that was employing Mechanical engineers for three weeks.”

“I think we ended. 2023 at only single digits people. Like we were less than 10 still.”