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Hu: Cursor scaled from $1M to $100M revenue in one year
“We've seen crazy growth unlike anything, only possible with, right now with AI, like all these companies that we work with, zero to twelve million in 12 months. The cursor story where they went zero to one in one year, the next one to a hundred. This is, like,…”
Diana Hu Jul 8, 2025 ▶ 11:56 How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
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French-Owen: Claude Code and Codex Use Grep Rather Than Semantic Embeddings
“Like I think cursor takes an approach where they actually do semantic search, where they embed everything and figure out like, Hey, what query is closest to this? If you look at a codex or a cloud code they actually just use like grep.”
Calvin French-Owen Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 11:16 We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
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Stuart: Cursor uses ParallelKittens on tens of thousands of Blackwell GPUs
“For example, Cursor is using it to train Composer on tens of thousands of Blackwell GPUs.”
Stuart (Stu) Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 20:57 Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
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Tan: Cursor Reached $100M ARR in 20 Months at $9B Valuation
“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.”
Garry Tan Jun 11, 2025 ▶ 0:37 Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
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Truell confirms Cursor reached roughly $1M in revenue around 2023
“You went from zero to one million around twenty-twenty-three, right? And it was, ah, it took a lot to get there, right? Yeah, it was a bit more than that, but sort of roughly that.”
Michael Truell Sep 3, 2025 ▶ 19:50 Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
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Blomfield: YC startup Den is building a 'Cursor for knowledge work'
“There's a company in the current batch called Den, basically building cursor for knowledge work. That's trying to chain together all of these different MCP servers, which basically a way to call tools for agents.”
Tom Blomfield May 23, 2025 ▶ 27:27 How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator
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