In 2019, Michael Truell, a shy, 18-year-old MIT student, sat staring at a coding test in the cafe of the Computer History Museum. It was supposed to take him about an hour, but he finished it in less than 10 minutes.
Truell, now 25, is the CEO of Cursor, the AI coding startup that inked a potential $60 billion sale to Elon Musk's SpaceX. The wispy, floppy-haired redhead comes across as quiet and kind to people who've worked with him. Within Cursor, it's well-known that he didn't pay himself for the first few years of the company's existence.
Beneath the humble demeanor, though, Truell has long harbored ambitions as grandiose as anyone in Silicon Valley, telling staff he wants Cursor to become a generational company. At Cursor, he presides over an intense work culture that sees candidates put through labyrinthine.
Truell now faces his biggest test yet. Will partnering with Musk pan out?
Take a closer look inside Cursor's wild rise at the link in our bio.
Story by Shubhangi Goel and Charles Rollet
(Credit: Getty Images; Business Insider)
#cursor #ai #coding #spacex
In 2019, Michael Truell, a shy, 18-year-old MIT student, sat staring at a coding test in the cafe of the Computer History Museum. It was supposed to take him about an hour, but he finished it in less than 10 minutes.
Truell, now 25, is the CEO of Cursor, the AI coding startup that inked a potential $60 billion sale to Elon Musk's SpaceX. The wispy, floppy-haired redhead comes across as quiet and kind to people who've worked with him. Within Cursor, it's well-known that he didn't pay himself for the first few years of the company's existence.
Beneath the humble demeanor, though, Truell has long harbored ambitions as grandiose as anyone in Silicon Valley, telling staff he wants Cursor to become a generational company. At Cursor, he presides over an intense work culture that sees candidates put through labyrinthine.
Truell now faces his biggest test yet. Will partnering with Musk pan out?
Take a closer look inside Cursor's wild rise at the link in our bio.
Story by Shubhangi Goel and Charles Rollet
(Credit: Getty Images; Business Insider)
#cursor #ai #coding #spacex
