SpaceX Cursor Deal Mints Four Multibillionaires in Their Mid-20s

Around the time ChatGPT and Github’s Copilot brought AI to the masses, four MIT classmates with backgrounds in computer science and finance decided they wanted in. They just didn’t quite know how.

“It started from a very ‘solution-in-search-of-a-problem’ place,” Michael Truell, co-founder and chief executive officer of Cursor, the company they started together, said in a June 2025 podcast appearance.

Four years later, Cursor is one of the most popular AI-powered coding tools on the market — and their “solution” has made them all multibillionaires.

Michael Truell

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SpaceX formally agreed to buy Cursor Tuesday in an all-stock ...