Michael Truell is the Co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, the fastest-growing AI code editor in the world and the fastest B2B software company to reach $1 billion in annual recurring revenue.

Michael studied Computer Science and Mathematics at MIT, where he met his three co-founders, and previously interned at Google, Two Sigma, and Octant, working on LLM-driven recommendation systems and high-throughput drug pipelines.

Michael believes AI should fundamentally reshape how coding works, not just assist programmers, envisioning a future where software development shifts from traditional code to natural language and pseudocode.

Under Michael's leadership, Cursor raised over $3.3 billion across multiple rounds including a $2.3 billion Series D co-led by Accel and Coatue, with strategic participation from Google and Nvidia, reaching a $29.3 billion valuation.

Cursor surpassed $1 billion in annualized revenue by late 2025, is used by the majority of Fortune 500 companies and engineering teams at OpenAI, Stripe, and Spotify, with in-house models generating more code than almost any other LLMs in the world.