Michael Truell (@mntruell) on building Cursor at 23, taking on GitHub Copilot, and advice to engineering students. At AI Startup School in San Francisco. 00:38 – PG essays & first code 02:36 – Games, robots, and hacking ML as a teenager 06:54 – From Hemisphere to Cursor: first startup attempts 09:54 – Pivoting hard when nothing was working 12:04 – Taking on GitHub Copilot 13:10 – Shipping the first Cursor editor 15:24 – Early lessons: features, feedback, and VS Code shift 16:26 – Codex, custom models, and pragmatic bets 17:58 – Wandering in 2023 20:00 – $1M → $100M in a year 22:46 – Word of mouth and growth 25:24 – The future of coding and advice for builders

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