00:00He's 25 years old. He just inked a $60 billion deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX and is already worth
00:07an estimated $1.3 billion. Michael Truel started coding at 11, interned at Google at 18 while still
00:14in his first year at MIT and caught the attention of one of Silicon Valley's top scouts. He and his
00:20MIT co-founders launched Cursor, an AI coding tool, in early 2022. By January 2025, the startup had
00:27$100 million in annualized revenue, and the AI giant passed $2 billion in February. Now SpaceX
00:34has the option to buy Cursor for $60 billion, and even if the deal falls through, Cursor still walks
00:40away with $10 billion since they'll still work with the company. In the latest issue of Fortune
00:45Magazine, Truel told Fortune's Ali Garfinkel he wants to build a long-lasting, independent,
00:51generational company focused entirely on professional developers.
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