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Michael Truell

Co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, maker of Cursor

Every podcast episode featuring Michael Truell that Attunex has found: 17 interviews and appearances across 13 shows between 2024 and 2026. Most often on AI + a16z (2), The a16z Show (2) and Steven AI Talk(English) (2). Follow Michael in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. 1036: Cursor & OpenAI Break Up
    Syntax - Tasty Web Development TreatsMentioned

    The messy breakup is official; as of November 12, OpenAI's models are getting pulled from Cursor, and we're digging into who's really to blame (and why Wes called it). Plus pnpm 12 goes full Rust,…

    2026-09-07
  2. Claude Ships Fable 5.1 | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | 80% of AI Revenue Comes From 1% of Customers | Grokbot Gets Its Own Computer | NVIDIA Makes $1B a Day | EP29
    God Mode Podcast: AI News, Vibe Coding, Indie Hacking & StartupsMentioned

    Claude shipped Fable 5.1 the week Rik cancelled, OpenAI is cutting Cursor off on November 12, and Anthropic's $200 20x plan is only 2x on the weekly limit.Rik and Ben go through the week the best…

    2026-09-04
  3. OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor, Nvidia Buys Hugging Face, Ox Alpha is GLM | This Week In AI
    Agents HourMentioned

    Someone became worth $2.5 billion in a week, and that's just the warm-up. Shane and Abhi open on the drama of the week: OpenAI cutting off Cursor after its acquisition by SpaceX, telling the team…

    2026-09-03
  4. AI Digest — August 31, 2026
    Iris AI DigestAI

    Good day, here's your AI digest for August 31, 2026. Today brings a busy mix of model access shifts, agent research, developer tooling, and security warnings. The through line is simple: AI systems…

    2026-08-31
  5. OpenAI 擬於 2026 年 11 月 12 日終止 SpaceX 收購 Cursor 後的模型合約
    EasyVibeCoding PodcastMentioned

    OpenAI 擬於 2026 年 11 月 12 日終止 SpaceX 收購 Cursor 後的模型合約。 合約理由 OpenAI 於 2026 年 8 月 28 日通知 SpaceX,將依合約中的控制權變更條款,在可行的最晚時間取消合約。OpenAI 表示,基於其過去與 Elon Musk 旗下公司合作時出現違約的經驗,無法確信 SpaceX 會依照服務條款使用技術;面對即將推出的模型…

    2026-08-29
  6. SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60B, Z AI's Open Model Rivals the Frontier, Meta's AI Morale Crisis
    Today’s AI NewsMentioned

    Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 17th, 2026. SpaceX officially closed its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor — funded almost entirely by a post-IPO rally that doubled the…

    2026-06-17
  7. SpaceX's AI Ambitions, Cursor's Quiet Rise, and xAI's National Security Role
    Connecting the DotsMentioned

    Podcast: Connecting the Dots Episode Title: SpaceX's AI Ambitions, Cursor's Quiet Rise, and xAI's National Security Role Date: June 16, 2026 Hosts: Alex and Morgan Today, we delve into the escalating…

    2026-06-16
  8. ROUNDUP: Anthropic Pays Elon $45B, SpaceX Files $1.75T IPO, Claude Mythos Hacks Apple
    In the Loop AIMentioned

    Three of the biggest deals in AI history all hit in the last 48 hours. SpaceX filed for a $1.75 trillion IPO, the biggest ever. Anthropic signed a deal to pay Elon $1.25 billion a month to train…

    2026-05-22
  9. EP35 · Workspace Agents / TPU 8 / Cursor SpaceX · 04.23 早报
    BestBlogsMentioned

    ## 今日精讲 OpenAI 官宣 ChatGPT Workspace Agents:面向团队的云端共享 AI 智能体 [视频] 今天最重磅的产品发布——OpenAI 把 ChatGPT 从个人对话工具升级成「团队同事」。Workspace Agents 基于 Codex 框架,用自然语言描述就能创建;能接入 Slack、Linear、Calendar、GitHub,在云端 7×24…

    2026-04-22
  10. Proof that Opus 4.6 Is Getting Worse, Ramp AI Coworker, MiniMax M2.7 & More (This Week In AI)
    Agents HourMentioned

    Mounting evidence that Claude Opus 4.6 has been degraded — BridgeBench shows a 15-point accuracy drop on their hallucination benchmark, and AMD's Senior AI Director found median thinking collapsed…

    2026-04-15
  11. Patrick Collison on Stripe’s Early Choices, Smalltalk, and What Comes After Coding
    AI + a16z

    Michael Truell, CEO of Cursor, sits down with Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe and an investor in Anysphere, to talk about Collison's history with Smalltalk and Lisp, the MongoDB and Ruby decisions…

    2026-03-24
  12. Patrick Collison on Stripe’s Early Choices, Smalltalk, and What Comes After Coding
    The a16z Show

    Michael Truell, CEO of Cursor, sits down with Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe and an investor in Anysphere, to talk about Collison's history with Smalltalk and Lisp, the MongoDB and Ruby decisions…

    2026-02-20
  13. Michael Truell's Confession & Failed Projects That Built a Billion-Dollar Editor | Truell's Warning Amid AI's Dev Takeover
    Wealth Waves DailyMentioned

    In this episode of Wealth Waves Daily, we delve into Michael Truell's captivating mind recounting Cursor's meteoric ascent from obscure startup to AI coding colossus, chronicling a gauntlet of…

    2026-01-16
  14. Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
    AI + a16z

    When four MIT grads decided to build a code editor while everyone else was building AI agents, they created the fastest-growing developer tool ever built. Cursor CEO Michael Truell joins a16z’s…

    2026-01-13
  15. 2025 in Review, Cursor Acquires Graphite, TikTok's $50B Profit | Michael Truell & Merrill Lutsky, Pranav Myana, Anna Goldie, Edward Mehr
    TBPN

    (00:25) - 2025 in Review (17:34) - TikTok's $50B Profit (22:34) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (24:27) - Michael Truell & Merrill Lutsky, co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, leads the company behind Cursor, an…

    2025-12-19
  16. Three in ten U.S. teens use AI chatbots every day, but safety concerns are growing; also, Why Cursor’s CEO believes OpenAI, Anthropic competition won’t crush his startup
    TechCrunch Industry NewsMentioned

    While teenagers may start out using AI chatbots for basic questions, their relationship with chatbot platforms has the potential to turn addictive. Plus, Anysphere CEO Michael Truell explained the…

    2025-12-10
  17. Full Stack Builders: How LinkedIn Turns PMs into AI-Powered Makers — Lenny's Podcast
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    If skills will change 70% by 2030, how do product teams stay relevant? — 1 hour condensed to 5 minutes. Host Lenny Rachitsky sits down with Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO) and guests Michael Truell, Varun…

    2025-12-04
  18. AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines
    Bloomberg Tech

    Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss the latest moves in tech stocks as skepticism grows about whether the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in December. Plus, Thinking Machines, the…

    2025-11-14
  19. How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
    Steven AI Talk(English)

    The provided text is a transcript from a YouTube video featuring Michael Truell, co-founder and CEO of Cursor, a fast-growing AI-coding company, in conversation with Martin Cassada from a16z. The…

    2025-11-11
  20. How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
    Steven AI Talk(English)

    The provided text is a transcript from a YouTube video featuring Michael Truell, co-founder and CEO of Cursor, a fast-growing AI-coding company, in conversation with Martin Cassada from a16z. The…

    2025-11-11
  21. Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
    The a16z Show

    When four MIT grads decided to build a code editor while everyone else was building AI agents, they created the fastest-growing developer tool ever built. Cursor CEO Michael Truell joins a16z’s…

    2025-11-10
  22. Cursor AI: The AI Code Editor Transforming Software Development
    The AI & Tech Society by DanarMentioned

    Cursor AI: The AI Code Editor Transforming Software Development Cursor AI was created by a team of four MIT graduates – Michael Truell, Aman Sanger, Sualeh Asif, and Arvid Lunnemark – who founded the…

    2025-11-09
  23. Is English The Programming Language Of The Future?
    Code & Curiosity by Maximilian SchwarzmüllerMentioned

    Cursor CEO Michael Truell mentioned in a Podcast that he sees a future where we move away from "traditional" programming languages, towards English being used as the primary input language. I only…

    2025-11-05
  24. #31 对话Michael Truell:23岁创立Cursor,与Github Copilot竞争
    播客翻译计划AI

    📝 本期播客简介 本期节目翻译自 硅谷创业加速器 YC 的官方播客《Y Combinator Startup Podcast》,25岁的迈克尔·特鲁尔(Michael Truell)已在AI编程领域缔造奇迹——他创立的Cursor仅用一年达成1亿美元年度经常性收入(ARR),成为行业增长最快的公司之一。在YC合伙人戴安娜·胡(Diana…

    2025-09-04
  25. Michael Truell: Building Cursor at 23, Taking on GitHub Copilot, and Advice to Engineering Students
    Y Combinator Startup Podcast

    Michael Truell on June 17th, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.At 25, Michael Truell has already built Cursor into one of the fastest-growing companies in AI coding, hitting $100M ARR in…

    2025-09-03
  26. #14 对话Cursor团队:AI如何重塑编程未来
    播客翻译计划AI

    📝 本期播客简介 本期Lex Fridman邀请Cursor团队四位核心成员——Aman Sanger、Arvid Lunnemark、Michael Truell和Sualeh Asif,深入探讨AI编程工具如何重塑软件开发范式。作为专精AI辅助编程的明星编辑器Cursor的创造者,他们揭示了从GitHub Copilot到Cursor…

    2025-08-15
  27. E17. Cursor CEO:品味是人类不可替代的价值
    慢燃

    🎙️ ​​​​​ ​ ​ ​Michael Truell​…

    2025-08-10
  28. #3. 对话 Cursor CEO:AI 将如何重塑代码与编程?
    播客翻译计划AI

    📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆的是科技媒体 The Verge 出品的深度商业访谈播客《Decoder》。 本期的嘉宾是 Anysphere 首席执行官 Michael Truell。他是爆火 AI 编程平台 Cursor 的联合创始人。Casey 与 Michael 深度探讨了 Cursor 的产品理念、技术架构,以及它为何成为全球增长最快的 AI 工具之一。Michael…

    2025-08-07
  29. Why tech is racing to adopt AI coding
    Decoder with Nilay Patel

    This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. I’ll be guest hosting the next few episodes of Decoder while Nilay is out on parental leave.…

    2025-08-04
  30. Patrick Collison on programming languages, AI, and Stripe's biggest engineering decisions
    mbanerjeepalmer+listennotes 's Listen Later

    Podcast : Cursor Episode : Patrick Collison on programming languages, AI, and Stripe's biggest engineering decisions Pub date : 2025-07-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast…

    2025-07-17
  31. AI in Education and Controversy: Teachers Get Tech-Boost, Musk's Grok Sparks Debate, and OpenAI Fights IP Theft
    AI in MarketingAI

    Today's episode delves into a range of AI developments and their implications across various sectors. We begin with the American Federation of Teachers' announcement of a $23 million investment into…

    2025-07-09
  32. S1EP047 Cursor 執行長 Michael Truell 談軟體工程師品味的重要性
    科技、經濟、生活、理財漫談 Podcast

    Cursor 這家公司旨在徹底改變程式設計的未來,目標是透過人工智慧創造一種新的程式設計方式,讓使用者能夠透過描述來建構軟體。Cursor 認為,雖然目前人工智慧在程式碼生成方面表現出色,但最終目標是實現更高層次的抽象化,讓專業開發人員能夠專注於軟體設計的「品味」和高層次邏輯。同時也討論了 Cursor…

    2025-06-20
  33. First Block: Interview with Michael Truell, Co-Founder & CEO of Cursor
    Notion Podcast

    Welcome to First Block, a Notion series where founders from the world’s leading companies tell us what it was like to navigate the many firsts of their startup journey — and what they learned from…

    2025-06-17
  34. Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents And Why Taste Still Matters
    Y Combinator Startup Podcast

    Michael Truell, co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, joins Garry to talk about building one of the fastest-growing startups of all time—and why he's betting on a future beyond…

    2025-06-11
  35. The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO)
    Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

    Michael Truell is the co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor—the fastest-growing AI code editor in the world, reaching $300 million in annual recurring revenue just two years…

    2025-05-01
  36. #447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI
    Lex Fridman Podcast

    Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Michael Truell, and Sualeh Asif are creators of Cursor, a popular code editor that specializes in AI-assisted programming. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our…

    2024-10-06