A 25-year-old just turned a college project into a $60 billion deal with SpaceX. 🤯
> Meet Michael Truell
> Former Google intern.
> No big pedigree. No billionaire parents.
> Just a kid obsessed with making coding faster.
> Started Cursor as a passion project in college.
> Built it with a tiny team. No hype. No PR.
> Just shipped. Every single day.
> Developers tried it and never went back.
> Word spread like wildfire among coders.
> Cursor became the fastest growing dev tool in history.
> Crossed $100M ARR faster than almost any SaaS ever.
> GitHub Copilot was the giant. Everyone said it was untouchable.
> Cursor didn't care. They just built better.
> Then Elon Musk's SpaceX came knocking.
> Not to partner. Not to invest.
> To acquire. For $60 billion. 🚀
> And if SpaceX doesn't buy they still pay $10 billion just for working together.
> He's 25 years old.
> No MBA. No boardroom experience.
> Just pure product obsession and relentless shipping.
> Said "We just want to build the best coding tool in the world."
Absolute legend 🔥
SpaceX just acquired Cursor for $60B
> be Cursor
> 4 MIT students start a side project in 2022
> build the AI coding tool developers love
> hit a $10B valuation
> decide copilots aren’t enough
> move into models
> need massive compute to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic & Google
> meanwhile xAI is losing the coding race
> realizes catching up could take years
> skips the line
> buys Cursor for $60B
> Cursor gets compute
> xAI gets the coding leader
> founders become multi-billionaires
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