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How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:49 Harj Taggar Amplitude is one of the world's leading analytics platforms, and they're used by some of the biggest companies in the world, like Cursor, DoorDash, and Walmart.
- ▶ 4:05 Spencer Skates Like, no question, if you were using, I mean, started by Cursor, but then, you know, all these other amazing tools, Cloud Code, Codex, like tons, you know, tons and tons of others, it was, it was very clear that you would be a lot more… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:19 Spencer Skates You know, there were a few folks that were messing around with it, and there, there were some people that had used cursor and other things, but the, the, the organization as a whole did not have, it's not like it was conscious and aware of…
- ▶ 9:58 Spencer Skates And then the rest of the week, you know, so we did training for about two days, um, and then the rest of the week was just, you know, like a hackathon, work on stuff you're already doing, except, you know, do it faster and better, uh, by,…
- ▶ 14:48 Spencer Skates Uh, signups to our free plan as we did, uh, from before our AI visibility launch, um, all the way to what we're going to be launching in January, which is we're going to launch, um, a, what we're going to call ask AI, which is a global…
- ▶ 27:34 Spencer Skates Um, I think, you know, there's going to be a cursor moment in analytics in the next two years.
- ▶ 32:41 Spencer Skates I think in particular, there are some products that you can adopt without selling and that like people just, you know, they have single player mode, you know, cursors, a great example.
Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:03 Aaron Epstein He's the head of design at Cursor, the leading AI coding tool used by more than a million people worldwide.
- ▶ 0:15 Aaron Epstein Today, we're going to review a bunch of user submitted websites, all built in Cursor, and Rio is not going to hold back.
- ▶ 0:51 Aaron Epstein These are all user submitted websites from YC founders in the YC community, and they were all at least fully or partially built with cursor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:57 Aaron Epstein It may be, you know, some of what you were going for with the cursor website.
- ▶ 11:12 Aaron Epstein Hey, there's cursor.
- ▶ 20:48 Aaron Epstein You obviously have a lot of experience with Notion and cursor. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:09 Aaron Epstein I'm curious how you think about this at Cursor.
The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:07 Harj Taggar Juicebox is an AI sourcing platform backed by Sequoia and used by Ramp, Cursor, and Perplexity to recruit the best talent in the world.
From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:50 Jake Heller Everyone in the world, you know, can already have the best coding assistant in tools like Cursor and Winsurf, et cetera, right?
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:07 Aaron Levie They can build that feature faster because of, you know, cursor, windsurf, et cetera, replit.
- ▶ 25:29 Aaron Levie As long as you can find not, how to not be so greedy that your pricing is sort of like, is kind of like offensive, you know, look at like, again, Windsurf, Replit, Cursor, et cetera, like, we're at like non-offensive levels of pricing.
- ▶ 30:37 Aaron Levie And so having things like Replit or Cursor or Windsurf or whatever is actually very useful because now they can go and work on software for those things.
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:46 Amjad Masad Break, breaks that feature, but also true of cloud code and cursor and all the others.
Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:09 Diana Hu I think the wildest thing about Cursor is that right now you're just 24 and build this monster of a company in a really short amount of time.
- ▶ 5:57 Diana Hu It's an interesting name because Cursor is not what it is. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:54 Michael Truell But yeah, in, in doing that, we were just brimming with ideas for what cursor could be if it were just about trying to be the best way to code with AI. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:13 Michael Truell Um, at the end of twenty-twenty-two that you actually, it has to, the form factor has to look a bit different, and so we learned kind of the first early AI features that then became part of the core of Cursor from iterating both for…
- ▶ 17:03 Michael Truell And then, uh, when we set off on cursor, I think we were a little bit burned by that.
- ▶ 17:45 Diana Hu Three was when you were still not sure about whether Cursor was gonna be a thing, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:22 Michael Truell Um, we're in this market where if you make the product better, you kind of see it in the numbers immediately, where, you know, things start to grow more, and so we felt it around, you know, when we first started to make cursor codebase…
- ▶ 21:29 Diana Hu I remember in 2023, I think it was maybe single digit percentage of the batch we used cursor, then 2024, it was like 80%. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:39 Diana Hu And by that time, um, in twenty-twenty-four, how big was Kerser? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:14 Diana Hu If they want to be like you three years ago before they start Cursor, what should they be doing right now?
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:27 Max Junestrand Looking at the Word add-in, I think you could phrase it as Cursor for lawyers. 2 times in the scene
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:21 unnamed speaker And recently I have started using Cursor AI to handle both coding and design, even like down to pixel level details. 6 times in the scene
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:48 Aravind Srinivas Cursor was a great product. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:31 Aravind Srinivas And I think like many of the successful AI products that people speak about today, cursor included, all were like, like, early, like, early, like, early, like, late, like, early, like, early, like, early, like, early,
- ▶ 20:24 Aravind Srinivas But yeah, front end design, that's where we are seeing tremendous adoption, like cursors being used by everybody. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:38 Aravind Srinivas Like, there are cursor competitors, perplexity competitors, like, OpenAI will have, like, their own cursor. 2 times in the scene
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI · Y Combinator
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:56 Diana Hu Like how many of you in the audience, if you're still in, in college, do your courses even allow use of a cursor? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:21 Harj Taggar You fast forward today, it's like you've got the cursor founder a couple of years out of college coming back with a ten billion dollar company. 2 times in the scene
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:50 Andrej Karpathy As you can take an LLM app like cursor and you can run it on GPT or cloud or Gemini series, right?
- ▶ 18:47 Andrej Karpathy It makes a lot more sense to have an app dedicated for this, and so I think many of you, uh, use our cursor. 5 times in the scene
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:27 Garry Tan Today, I'm joined by Michael Truel, co-founder and CEO of AnySphere, the company behind Cursor, the AI coding platform we all know and love.
- ▶ 0:52 Garry Tan You've said the goal of Cursor is to actually invent a new type of programming where you can just describe what you want and it gets built. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:57 Michael Truell You know, on average, we see about people using, you know, having AI write 40%, 50% of the lines of code produced within Cursor, but it's still a process of, you know, reading everything that comes out of the AI.
- ▶ 13:14 Garry Tan Switching gears, like I wanted to hear about the early days of Cursor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:43 Michael Truell Now in Cursor, we do over half a billion model calls per day on our own inference. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:51 Garry Tan Cursors out. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:38 Michael Truell Then it was only after that initial period of cursor being out for nine months to a year of working on the underlying product, building out the team, also not just the product side of things, but also starting to get the first versions of… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:33 Garry Tan Cursor is now worth nine billion dollars. 3 times in the scene
How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:01 Pete Koomen When I use tools like Cursor and Windsurf to build software with AI, it feels like the most powerful tool I've ever used, right?
- ▶ 17:02 Pete Koomen It's basically every profession I think will have its cursor moment or its windsurf moment.
- ▶ 17:07 Tom Blomfield Why is cursor windsurf or Claude code so far ahead of, you know, lawyer agents or accounting agents?
- ▶ 27:27 Tom Blomfield There's a company in the current batch called Den, basically building cursor for knowledge work.
How AI Coding Agents Will Change Your Job · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:56 Tom Blomfield You know, I tried it six or nine months ago, they weren't that good, but this time around I built the game, and then I, I moved on to tools like, um, Cursor and Windsurf and Claude Code.
How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:22 unnamed speaker So I'd say like, just load up both cursor and windsurf on the same project. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:54 Tom Blomfield So if you've written code before, even if you're a little bit rusty like me, you can probably leap straight to tools like windsurf, cursor, or clawed code.
- ▶ 10:46 Tom Blomfield Put these instructions in whether it's cursor rules, windsurf rules, claw
Vibe Coding Is The Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:20 Garry Tan From K-sixty, he says, I write everything with cursor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:11 Diana Hu The vibe started to shift back in summer 24 when cursor was being used by a big portion of the batch. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:59 Garry Tan So they actually don't know a world where cursor didn't exist.