Everyone’s taking the wrong lesson from this.
Cursor scaled to $29B without traditional PMs because they’re building a developer tool for developers. Ryo can walk through the entire product with engineers because engineers are the customer, the user, and the builder. The feedback loop is immediate and everyone speaks the same language.
That model breaks the second you’re building for non-technical users. Product decisions require understanding customer jobs, translating between technical constraints and user needs, prioritizing across conflicting stakeholder demands, and maintaining strategic coherence as the team grows past 50 people.
Cursor gets away with fuzzy roadmaps and fluid roles because every person in those concentric circles (staff, beta users, early adopters, enterprises) can evaluate a live prototype and tell you exactly what’s wrong. They’re not guessing about user behavior because the users are technical enough to articulate precise feedback.
Most companies don’t have that luxury. Your users can’t code. Your stakeholders don’t understand API latency. Your go-to-market team needs a roadmap that sales can commit to. Your support team needs documentation. Your compliance team needs audit trails.
The Cursor model works when the product is the development environment. For everything else, you need someone translating between what’s technically possible, what’s commercially viable, and what customers actually want. That’s the PM role.
Copying Cursor’s structure without Cursor’s context is how you end up with features nobody asked for and engineers burned out from scope creep.
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📷 We are excited to announce that we have been acquired by @SageUSAmerica, the trusted accounting and financial software provider for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).
Both Fyle and Sage are focused on simplifying and automating SMB workflows - so they can spend less time worrying about manual tasks and more time thinking about growth.
Sage’s experience and investment will help scale our platform, and we hope to bring Fyle’s intuitive customer experience to new and existing Sage customers!
You can read more here: https://t.co/51ELeGkjep
Looking forward to being part of Sage!
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