Profil Financier
Michael Truell occupe actuellement le rang #1518 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur technologie). Fortune nette estimée : $2.7 B (+$188 M sur 24h).
Michael Truell is the cofounder and CEO of Cursor, the maker of a popular AI code editing tool.
He cofounded the company with three friends from MIT in 2022.
The company was acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion in August 2026. Forbes estimates that each Cursor cofounder received shares of the rocket maker worth $2.4 billion at the deal's closing.
Before the SpaceX acquisition, Cursor claimed to have more than $1 billion in annualized revenue, making it one of the fastest growing AI startups.
Today, millions of software developers at enterprises like Nvidia, Adobe, Uber and Shopify use Cursor to generate and edit chunks of code.
Truell and his billionaire cofounder Aman Sanger were high school classmates at New York City's Horace Mann School.