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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO)

May 1, 2025 · 1h 11m
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  • Cursor, an AI code editor, achieved $300M ARR in two years, showing rapid growth.
  • Michael Truell, CEO, discusses Cursor's pivot from CAD automation to code automation.
  • The future vision explores 'what comes after code' and AI's impact on programming.

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