> Tailwind lays of 75% of their team because of AI as they underwent a 80% revenue loss
> 24 hours later sponsors arrive from big places
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Dave: "So let me get this straight, Michael. You started Cursor three years ago."
Michael: "Yes, Dave."
Dave: "And you just raised $900 million."
Michael: "Correct."
Dave: "At a $9.9 billion valuation."
Michael: "That's right."
Dave: "You're doing over $500 million in ARR."
Michael: "Yes."
Dave: "Which means your revenue has been doubling every two months."
Michael: "Pretty much."
Dave: "And OpenAI tried to buy you."
Michael: "They did."
Dave: "But you said no."
Michael: "We turned them down."
Dave: "So they bought your competitor Windsurf for $3 billion instead."
Michael: "That happened, yes."
Dave: "The competitor doing $100 million ARR while you're at $500 million."
Michael: "I'm aware of the math, Dave."
Dave: "And you're still just a fork of VS Code."
Michael: "Well, when you say it like thatβ"
Dave: "So your entire $9.9 billion company depends on Microsoft not changing its API."
Michael: "We prefer to call it 'strategic interdependence.'"
Dave: "Okay. Thanks for calling in."
THE VERY NEXT DAY:
Dave: "Michael, you're calling back already?"
Michael: "We just raised another round."
Dave: "How much?"
Michael: "$2.3 billion."
Dave: "At what valuation?"
Michael: "$29.3 billion."
Dave: "You were at $9.9 billion yesterday."
Michael: "Correct."
Dave: "Did you stop being a fork of VS Code?"
Michael: "No."
Dave: "Did Microsoft give you permission to use their code?"
Michael: "They haven't said no."
Dave: "So you tripled your valuation in 24 hours and nothing fundamentally changed."
Michael: "Our revenue is still doubling every two months."
Dave: "You're still one API change away from bankruptcy."
Michael: "Strategic interdependence, Dave."
Dave: "We're done here, Michael. Stop calling."
Ever since I first saw this I wanted to try implementing it in TypeGPU, and I finally got around to it while testing the new 0.8 release.
You can try out the Jelly Slider here:
https://t.co/XHXKbjDE4T
Had a lot of fun brainstorming optimisations with @iwoplaza and the team, and it should run well on most modern devices.
Built entirely with TypeGPU, no extra libraries, with all shaders written in TypeScript. The prototyping speed with features like console.log on the GPU and βbindlessβ resources made the process really smooth.
The first gear takes about 3.5 seconds to turn. The second gear takes about 35 seconds, or 3.5x10^1. The fifth wheel will take around ten hours to turn once. In a month, the seventh wheel will have almost one rotation. The eighth will take a little over a year. If you watch this machine from the time you are born until the time you die, you will probably live to see the tenth gear make most of one rotation. The eleventh will take over a millennium to turn, the twelfth considerably longer than all of recorded history, and the fourteenth wheel would take about as long as humans have existed. In the time since the dinosaurs went extinct, the sixteenth wheel would turn a little more than half way. Earth's existence has been long enough to get the eighteenth wheel half way around, and in the entire history of the known universe the twenty-first gear would move by just over one tooth.
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