Simon Hørup Eskildsen: commitment

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…Well I think there’s an argument for, you should have joined Cursor, right? So I’m curious like how you evaluate it. Okay, I should actually go raise money and make this a company versus like, this is like a company that is like growing like crazy. It’s like an interesting technical problem. I should just build it within Cursor and then they don’t have to encrypt all this stuff. They don’t have to obfuscate things. Like was that on your mind at all or before taking the, the small check from Lockie, I did have like a hard like look at myself in the mirror of like, okay, do I really want to do this? And because if I take the money, I really have to do it right. And so the way I almost think about it’s like you kind of need to ha like you kind of need to be like fucked up enough to want to go all the way. And that was the conversation where I was like, okay, this is gonna be part of my life’s journey to build this company and do it in the best way that I possibly can’t. Because if I ask people to join me, ask people to get on the cap table, then I have an ultimate responsibility to give it everything. And I don’t, I think some people, it doesn’t occur to me that everyone takes it that seriously. And maybe I take it too seriously, I don’t know. But that was like a very intentional moment. And so then it was very clear like, okay, I’m gonna do this and I’m gonna give it everything. A lot of people don’t take it this seriously. But,…

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