The Underdog That Crushed GitHub Copilot: Cursor’s $100M ARR Secret
In 2022, four MIT graduates started Cursor right out of university – an editor where developers could generate 2,000-line pull requests from just 50 lines of pseudo code, eliminate bugs entirely, and…
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