Cursor

“What do OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Replet, Sierra, Clay, and hundreds of other winning companies all have in common? They are all powered by work OS.”

“execute against that. cursor a great example they went very viral execute against that”

Described as a great example of a company that went viral and executed against that momentum.

“Michael Truel, the CEO of Cursor, was a member of our student investing team actually. Um, so each year we have about 1500 students apply. Uh, we take just about 30. Um, Michael was a sophomore at MIT and so we had the opportunity to get to know him over his, you know, three years at, uh, MIT while he was there and stayed in touch. And so when Michael started to build, we knew it was a fantastic opportunity to back one of the most talented folks from our community.”

The speaker highlights Cursor as a fantastic investment opportunity backed by talented MIT founder Michael Truel, with successful early funding.

“Cursor discovered they hadn't properly marked data they were using for training. They were including data from their internal use of Grockbot in data sent to XAI, with concerns that sensitive customer information might have been included. Earlier, they'd accidentally published customer information on publicly accessible websites.”

The company had multiple data security issues where customer and internal data were improperly handled, including accidental public exposure of Verizon customer information.