Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedMichael Truell: belief
1 May 2025 Lenny's Podcast The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO)
“Many people you hear hire too fast, I think we actually hired too slow to begin with.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Michael Truell
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 1 May 2025
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
Transcript context
…What's something that you wish you knew before you got into this role? Many people you hear hire too fast, I think we actually hired too slow to begin with. You guys went from $0 to 100 million ARR in a year and a half, which is historic. Was there an inflection point where things just started to really take off?…
Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.