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Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents And Why Taste Still Matters

Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents And Why Taste Still Matters

Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Jun 11, 2025 37 min
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<p>Michael Truell, co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, joins Garry to talk about building one of the fastest-growing startups of all time—and why he&#39;s betting on a future beyond code. He walks through the early insights that led his team to leave a promising AI-powered CAD project and instead chase a bigger dream: reinventing how software is written. From years of false starts and rewrites to Cursor&#39;s breakthrough moment, Michael explains what it takes to build a tool that could eventually replace programming as we know it. He also reflects on their first 10 hires, why taste still matters and how the decade ahead will unlock a new kind of creativity for builders everywhere.</p>

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