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Four MIT Students Become Billionaires
Published 3 days, 9 hours ago
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Four MIT classmates turned billionaires with their AI coding tool Cursor, started in 2022 with no engineering background but pivoted to coding—and soared. Backed by OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, and others, Cursor hit $100M ARR and 1M daily users. Now, SpaceX is set to acquire them for $60B, boosting their valuation and fueling SpaceX’s AI ambitions after merging with xAI.
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