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2 min read · 449 words- MTMichael Truell
I started coding when I was 12, and, uh, very rapidly got kind of obsessed with it, and, uh, that came from the feeling of being able to build, uh, without barriers, which I think is one of the special things about, about programming. With coding, you just need a computer, and you can build things that you dream up in your mind. [Instrumental music] Cursor is a tool that helps professionals build software faster with AI. That means being the best place to work with coding agents, both for professional engineers and, uh, folks with no engineering background at all. That's both giving people a tool that's approachable, but then is also really powerful.
- SPSpeaker
Anthropic and Cursor have a tight relationship. How would you describe it?
- MTMichael Truell
One of the things we really appreciated about Anthropic is how committed the, the company is to principles, which has been one of kind of the core founding components or missions of the company. But I think it extends also to how you all serve customers, and I think from the start of the company, there's been a commitment to really being a platform and being something that folks can build lasting businesses on top of. [Instrumental music] It's been a, a deep partnership and one we're really grateful for, but I actually remember we were a very, very scrappy team back then. Anthropic was a more scrappy organization than it is now too. But I think that part of what's enabled Cursor to exist is just, like, this revolution in AI models. There's been this great, productive, tight alignment between some of the stuff we're doing on the product side of things and some of the increases in model capabilities that you all are working on.
- SPSpeaker
What differentiates Cursor?
- MTMichael Truell
There's a deep product focus at the company from the very start. We wanna give folks more autonomy and help them be more empowered. I think that this is, like, a great time to be working on a company. That's because I think in short order, like, a whole new set of companies have been made possible that have, like, different physics, like different business physics. [Instrumental music] Two years ago, we were fifteen people in a room, and now we're seven hundred people and serve over sixty percent of the Fortune five hundred, and, you know, have very large software business that, you know, rivals for many of the biggest public software companies. Uh, it's definitely kind of crazy, uh, and it's not lost on us just how special this is, um, how, um, unprecedented it is historically, um, and feel lucky to be able to contribute in some way to, to this. [Instrumental music]
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