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$60 BILLION FROM 4 MIT STUDENTS In 2022, four MIT classmates started Cursor. Four years later, SpaceX just completed a $60 BILLION acquisition of their company. This might be one of the craziest startup speedruns ever. - Cursor reached ~$2.6B in annualized enterprise revenue - It went from a VS Code fork to one of the biggest AI coding tools - SpaceX gets Cursor's talent, developer distribution and coding ecosystem - Cursor gets massive SpaceXAI compute and is already helping build Grok 4 people. 4 years. $60 billion. AI is creating giants faster than we've ever seen before.

$60 BILLION FROM 4 MIT STUDENTS In 2022, four MIT classmates started Cursor. Four years later, SpaceX just completed a $60 BILLION acquisition of their company. This might be one of the craziest startup speedruns ever. - Cursor reached ~$2.6B in annualized enterprise revenue - It went from a VS Code fork to one of the biggest AI coding tools - SpaceX gets Cursor's talent, developer distribution and coding ecosystem - Cursor gets massive SpaceXAI compute and is already helping build Grok 4 people. 4 years. $60 billion. AI is creating giants faster than we've ever seen before.

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SpaceX said it has an agreement giving it the right to acquire artificial intelligence startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year or to pay $10 billion for the companies’ work together, part of the Elon Musk-run firm’s efforts to catch up with rivals in AI coding tools. Bloomberg’s Natasha Mascarenhas has more

SpaceX said it has an agreement giving it the right to acquire artificial intelligence startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year or to pay $10 billion for the companies’ work together, part of the Elon Musk-run firm’s efforts to catch up with rivals in AI coding tools. Bloomberg’s Natasha Mascarenhas has more

Bloomberg TV

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Elon Musk just made one if the biggest moves in taking over the programming industry “SpaceX just bought Cursor for $60 billion. Do you realize how big this is? SpaceX went public — the biggest IPO in history. $75 billion raised, almost a $2 trillion valuation and the first thing to do with that money? Buy the most popular AI coding tool on the planet. Here's why that changes everything. Elon now owns 3 layers: the compute, Colossus data centers, the models, Grok through xAI, and now the tool that developers actually use every day. It's the full stack. And here's what makes Cursor different from Claude Code or Codex. Cursor is model agnostic. You can run Claude in it, GPT, Gemini, whatever model you want. It's not locked to any one company, and now it has SpaceX's resources behind it. Cursor said they were bottlenecked by compute. Well, that bottleneck has just been removed. $4 billion in annual revenue, over half the Fortune 500 already uses it, and now it's backed by a $2 trillion company. OpenAI has Codex, Anthropic has Claude Code, and now Elon has Cursor.” Let me break this down in simple terms Elon Musk now controls more of the full AI picture: - Massive computers, power (data centers like Colossus) - Smart AI models (Grok from xAI) - The actual tool millions of developers use every day (Cursor) For every day users this means Faster and smarter apps and websites in the future. More developers using powerful AI tools means new apps, games, websites, and features get built quicker and cheaper. This means better video games, smoother streaming, smarter phone apps and better programs For Developers they can describe what they want in plain English (“make a feature that does X”) and the AI handles more of the heavy lifting

Elon Musk just made one if the biggest moves in taking over the programming industry “SpaceX just bought Cursor for $60 billion. Do you realize how big this is? SpaceX went public — the biggest IPO in history. $75 billion raised, almost a $2 trillion valuation and the first thing to do with that money? Buy the most popular AI coding tool on the planet. Here's why that changes everything. Elon now owns 3 layers: the compute, Colossus data centers, the models, Grok through xAI, and now the tool that developers actually use every day. It's the full stack. And here's what makes Cursor different from Claude Code or Codex. Cursor is model agnostic. You can run Claude in it, GPT, Gemini, whatever model you want. It's not locked to any one company, and now it has SpaceX's resources behind it. Cursor said they were bottlenecked by compute. Well, that bottleneck has just been removed. $4 billion in annual revenue, over half the Fortune 500 already uses it, and now it's backed by a $2 trillion company. OpenAI has Codex, Anthropic has Claude Code, and now Elon has Cursor.” Let me break this down in simple terms Elon Musk now controls more of the full AI picture: - Massive computers, power (data centers like Colossus) - Smart AI models (Grok from xAI) - The actual tool millions of developers use every day (Cursor) For every day users this means Faster and smarter apps and websites in the future. More developers using powerful AI tools means new apps, games, websites, and features get built quicker and cheaper. This means better video games, smoother streaming, smarter phone apps and better programs For Developers they can describe what they want in plain English (“make a feature that does X”) and the AI handles more of the heavy lifting

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: Elon Musk is in a phenomenal position to lead the future of AI, autonomous vehicles, and humanoid robotics. “Collecting world data is very expensive, and Elon has a great advantage because, number one, his AI factory for his cars is fantastic, has a lot of NVIDIA gear in it, and he has a very large fleet of cars on the road that allows him to collect a lot of data. So I think he has just a phenomenal position, and he's been working on this for a long time, and so he's going to be in a great position to take advantage of it. I know Elon's attitude towards AI, and he's very optimistic about its future, and obviously he's working on some of the most important AI areas. xAI is working on foundation, cognitive intelligence AI. Tesla's working on autonomous vehicles, and Optimus is for humanoid robotics. These three areas of AI are the three most important areas.”

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: Elon Musk is in a phenomenal position to lead the future of AI, autonomous vehicles, and humanoid robotics. “Collecting world data is very expensive, and Elon has a great advantage because, number one, his AI factory for his cars is fantastic, has a lot of NVIDIA gear in it, and he has a very large fleet of cars on the road that allows him to collect a lot of data. So I think he has just a phenomenal position, and he's been working on this for a long time, and so he's going to be in a great position to take advantage of it. I know Elon's attitude towards AI, and he's very optimistic about its future, and obviously he's working on some of the most important AI areas. xAI is working on foundation, cognitive intelligence AI. Tesla's working on autonomous vehicles, and Optimus is for humanoid robotics. These three areas of AI are the three most important areas.”

DogeDesigner

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Let’s make an AI photo generator app with Cursor in 7min. Just give Cursor Composer a prompt file and the AI will write 100% of the code. AI is making it so that *anyone* can start building software today. Full prompt below.

Let’s make an AI photo generator app with Cursor in 7min. Just give Cursor Composer a prompt file and the AI will write 100% of the code. AI is making it so that anyone can start building software today. Full prompt below.

Mckay Wrigley

426,678 views • 2 years ago

🇺🇸ELON “HAS A PHENOMENAL POSITION IN AI” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: “Elon has a great advantage because his AI factory for his cars is fantastic. He has a very large fleet of cars on the road… and he’s been working on this for a long time. Tesla is working on autonomous vehicles, and I think he’s working on exactly the right things.” Source: Elon Musk

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Mario Nawfal

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Elon Musk on why SpaceX must win in AI. 🤖🚀 "We must succeed on the software front." Musk says SpaceX's AI future depends on three things: • AI hardware on the ground • AI software • AI satellites powered by solar energy He also says Terafab will play an important role in building that future. But the most important part, according to Musk, is Grok. "We're going to be training Grok on the sum total of all space information." Musk describes SpaceX as the "parents" of the AI—saying Grok will inherit the thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and values of the people who build it. And his biggest message is simple: "We must win on AI." Because Musk believes the future will be overwhelmingly dominated by AI and robots. The goal isn't just to build the smartest AI. It's to build an AI with the right values—and make sure it helps humanity move forward. 🤖🌍🚀

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang today on Tesla's approach to self-driving: "Elon has a great advantage because his AI factory for his cars is fantastic, it has a lot of Nvidia gear in it. His AV algorithms are incredible. It's the best in the world. He has a very large fleet of cars on the road that allows him to collect a lot of data. I think he's in a phenomenal position."

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Bill Maher said tonight that Elon Musk has been the smartest on the subject of AI. "I am very close to the cutting edge in AI and it scares the hell out of me. By the time we are reactive with AI regulation it is too late. AI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization, and I don't think people fully appreciate that." - Elon Musk in 2017/2018

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Elon Musk said that SpaceX has acquired his artificial-intelligence startup xAI in a record-setting deal that unifies his AI and space ambitions by combining the rocket-and-satellite company with the maker of the Grok chatbot

Elon Musk said that SpaceX has acquired his artificial-intelligence startup xAI in a record-setting deal that unifies his AI and space ambitions by combining the rocket-and-satellite company with the maker of the Grok chatbot

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Cathie Wood on Elon Musk and SpaceX today: • SpaceX could become “the most important company in global history” • It has a 10-year lead in reusable rockets • Starlink is turning telecom into a global business • SpaceX could lead orbital data centers and low-cost frontier AI • Elon and his team are building one of the most powerful technology ecosystems in the world.

Cathie Wood on Elon Musk and SpaceX today: • SpaceX could become “the most important company in global history” • It has a 10-year lead in reusable rockets • Starlink is turning telecom into a global business • SpaceX could lead orbital data centers and low-cost frontier AI • Elon and his team are building one of the most powerful technology ecosystems in the world.

DogeDesigner

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🇺🇸 SpaceX’s AI business is about to become bigger than its entire rocket and satellite operation. Revenue from AI is expected to overtake all other company income as soon as next month and then pull significantly ahead in the fourth quarter. It has quickly turned into a vital part of the company’s future, covering both the hardware and the software side. Source: SpaceX, Elon Musk / Writer: Sol

🇺🇸 SpaceX’s AI business is about to become bigger than its entire rocket and satellite operation. Revenue from AI is expected to overtake all other company income as soon as next month and then pull significantly ahead in the fourth quarter. It has quickly turned into a vital part of the company’s future, covering both the hardware and the software side. Source: SpaceX, Elon Musk / Writer: Sol

Mario Nawfal

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on AI: The fact that this is going to be the end of humanity—it's complete nonsense. The fact that this is going to destroy half of the American jobs—it's complete nonsense. AI will increase productivity. When productivity is increased, it creates opportunities. Over the history of technology, society has become more productive as a result of technology. It has created more jobs, not less. Source: Axios

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on AI: The fact that this is going to be the end of humanity—it's complete nonsense. The fact that this is going to destroy half of the American jobs—it's complete nonsense. AI will increase productivity. When productivity is increased, it creates opportunities. Over the history of technology, society has become more productive as a result of technology. It has created more jobs, not less. Source: Axios

Clash Report

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🚨 BREAKING NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG JUST TEASED A "HUGE" ANNOUNCEMENT FOR TOMORROW. JENSEN DOESN'T USE THAT WORD LIGHTLY. EVER. INSIDERS ARE BETTING ON A SPACEX PARTNERSHIP - RIGHT BEFORE THE BIGGEST IPO OF THE DECADE. NVIDIA + SPACEX = THE AI AND SPACE RACE COLLIDE IN ONE DEAL. THE BIGGEST AI DEAL OF 2026 IS LOADING...

🚨 BREAKING NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG JUST TEASED A "HUGE" ANNOUNCEMENT FOR TOMORROW. JENSEN DOESN'T USE THAT WORD LIGHTLY. EVER. INSIDERS ARE BETTING ON A SPACEX PARTNERSHIP - RIGHT BEFORE THE BIGGEST IPO OF THE DECADE. NVIDIA + SPACEX = THE AI AND SPACE RACE COLLIDE IN ONE DEAL. THE BIGGEST AI DEAL OF 2026 IS LOADING...

Qmo

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SpaceX just agreed to buy Cursor for $60 billion. Everyone is talking about the product, the models, the valuation. I’m interested in the human side of this AI story. Who built the team behind one of the fastest-growing software companies in history, and how do they think about talent at the frontier of AI? For the first episode of my new podcast, Below the Surface, I sat down with Adam Ward, Cursor 's Head of Talent, to find out. Before Cursor, Adam helped scale Facebook through its IPO, ran global recruiting at Pinterest from 200 to 2000+ people, and built Growth by Design Talent, the advisory firm behind OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, Notion, and Figma … until Cursor acquired it last year. We talked about what hiring looks like when the market is moving this fast, how Cursor does it differently, and what it actually takes to build a high-performance team right now. One of my biggest takeaways: the companies that win in AI won’t just have better models. They’ll have better systems for finding, assessing, and enabling exceptional people. Watch the full episode here: Or subscribe wherever you get podcasts: 🎧 🎤

SpaceX just agreed to buy Cursor for $60 billion. Everyone is talking about the product, the models, the valuation. I’m interested in the human side of this AI story. Who built the team behind one of the fastest-growing software companies in history, and how do they think about talent at the frontier of AI? For the first episode of my new podcast, Below the Surface, I sat down with Adam Ward, Cursor 's Head of Talent, to find out. Before Cursor, Adam helped scale Facebook through its IPO, ran global recruiting at Pinterest from 200 to 2000+ people, and built Growth by Design Talent, the advisory firm behind OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, Notion, and Figma … until Cursor acquired it last year. We talked about what hiring looks like when the market is moving this fast, how Cursor does it differently, and what it actually takes to build a high-performance team right now. One of my biggest takeaways: the companies that win in AI won’t just have better models. They’ll have better systems for finding, assessing, and enabling exceptional people. Watch the full episode here: Or subscribe wherever you get podcasts: 🎧 🎤

Joelle Emerson

25,595 views • 2 months ago

Cursor has spent its entire existence competing with every major AI lab and incumbent in the toughest market in tech—and has continued to win. So much so that Elon Musk bought them for $60 billion to help SpaceX win the AI race. They've done this by building one of the most talent-dense teams in history. Adam Ward (Adam Ward) is Head of Talent at Cursor—who acquired his legendary recruiting firm after he spent 20+ years building the most elite teams in tech—and in our conversation he shares the entire playbook for building high talent-density teams. We discuss: 🔸 Why the traditional recruiting funnel—the "funnel of doom"—guarantees mediocre hiring 🔸 Adam's three-step playbook for hiring the top 1% 🔸 The rise of the forward-deployed engineer 🔸 Today's "tale of two cities" talent market 🔸 The biggest mistake founders make with their first recruiting hire 🔸 The worst question you can ask when sourcing talent (you've definitely asked it) Watch the full episode right here 👇

Cursor has spent its entire existence competing with every major AI lab and incumbent in the toughest market in tech—and has continued to win. So much so that Elon Musk bought them for $60 billion to help SpaceX win the AI race. They've done this by building one of the most talent-dense teams in history. Adam Ward (Adam Ward) is Head of Talent at Cursor—who acquired his legendary recruiting firm after he spent 20+ years building the most elite teams in tech—and in our conversation he shares the entire playbook for building high talent-density teams. We discuss: 🔸 Why the traditional recruiting funnel—the "funnel of doom"—guarantees mediocre hiring 🔸 Adam's three-step playbook for hiring the top 1% 🔸 The rise of the forward-deployed engineer 🔸 Today's "tale of two cities" talent market 🔸 The biggest mistake founders make with their first recruiting hire 🔸 The worst question you can ask when sourcing talent (you've definitely asked it) Watch the full episode right here 👇

Lenny Rachitsky

231,034 views • 12 days ago

" I know Elon's attitude towards AI, and he's very optimistic about its future. And obviously he's working on some of the most important AI areas. xAI is working on foundation cognitive intelligence AI, Tesla's working on autonomous vehicles, and Optimus is for humanoid robotics. These three areas of AI are the three most important areas of AI. And so I think he's working on exactly the right things," says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Elon Musk and AI Ed Ludlow Bloomberg Technology $TSLA $NVDA

" I know Elon's attitude towards AI, and he's very optimistic about its future. And obviously he's working on some of the most important AI areas. xAI is working on foundation cognitive intelligence AI, Tesla's working on autonomous vehicles, and Optimus is for humanoid robotics. These three areas of AI are the three most important areas of AI. And so I think he's working on exactly the right things," says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Elon Musk and AI Ed Ludlow Bloomberg Technology $TSLA $NVDA

Herbert Ong

1,979,714 views • 1 year ago

🚨A 25 YEAR OLD BUILT THE FASTEST GROWING SOFTWARE COMPANY IN HISTORY.. WITH ZERO MARKETING SPEND.. AND SPACEX JUST OFFERED $60 BILLION TO BUY IT.. His name is Michael Truell.. He started coding at 11.. Interned at Google at 18.. Dropped out of MIT to start a company that built AI tools for mechanical engineering.. That company failed.. So he pivoted.. And built Cursor.. An AI-powered code editor that writes software for you.. Here's how fast it grew.. $100 million in annual revenue in 12 months.. Fastest in SaaS history.. Broke every record ever set by Slack, Zoom, and Wiz.. $500 million by month 21.. $1 billion by November 2025.. $2 billion by February 2026.. Projected to hit $6 billion by end of year.. Zero marketing spend.. Not a single dollar.. Pure word of mouth from developers who couldn't stop talking about it.. Over 1 billion lines of code accepted per day.. Used by 70% of Fortune 1000 companies.. Every single one of Nvidia's 40,000 engineers uses it.. Coinbase hit 100% adoption among their developers.. And he did this with a team of four MIT co-founders.. One of them was a three-time International Math Olympiad competitor from Pakistan.. Another was a college squash captain with zero startup experience who built the entire product strategy.. They spent zero on sales.. Zero on ads.. Zero on growth hacking.. The product sold itself.. But here's where the story takes a turn nobody expected.. Even at $50 billion valuation.. Even generating billions in revenue.. They hit a wall.. Not a market wall.. A physics wall.. They couldn't get enough GPUs to train their next AI model.. The physical chips didn't exist in sufficient quantities for them to buy.. Money couldn't solve the problem.. Enter Elon Musk.. On April 21.. SpaceX announced a deal to potentially acquire Cursor for $60 billion.. The largest acquisition option in tech history.. The structure is insane.. SpaceX gives Cursor immediate access to Colossus.. xAI's supercomputer equivalent to one million Nvidia H100 GPUs.. For nine months of joint development.. At the end.. SpaceX can buy the company for $60 billion.. If they don't buy it.. They owe Cursor a $10 billion breakup fee.. The largest breakup fee in corporate history.. Think about what that means for Cursor.. Either they get acquired for $60 billion.. Or they walk away with $10 billion in cash and nine months of free training on the most powerful supercomputer on earth.. There is no losing scenario.. And here's why Musk wants it.. SpaceX is preparing for an IPO at $1.75 trillion.. The biggest IPO ever.. But aerospace alone can't justify that number.. By merging xAI into SpaceX.. And now acquiring Cursor.. Musk transforms SpaceX from a rocket company into an AI empire that owns the compute, the models, and the developer tools.. Cursor is the missing piece.. The application layer that puts xAI's models into the daily workflow of every Fortune 500 engineering team.. Oh and one more thing.. In 2022.. FTX's trading firm Alameda Research made a seed investment in Cursor.. During the FTX bankruptcy.. Liquidators sold that stake for $200,000.. That stake is now worth approximately $3 billion.. Sam Bankman-Fried called it the worst liquidation decision in venture capital history.. From a prison cell.. A failed mechanical engineering startup.. Pivoted by four kids from MIT.. Zero marketing.. Zero sales team.. Built the fastest growing software company in history.. And now SpaceX is writing a $60 billion check for it.. This is the most insane founder story in Silicon Valley history.. And most people haven't even heard of Michael Truell.

🚨A 25 YEAR OLD BUILT THE FASTEST GROWING SOFTWARE COMPANY IN HISTORY.. WITH ZERO MARKETING SPEND.. AND SPACEX JUST OFFERED $60 BILLION TO BUY IT.. His name is Michael Truell.. He started coding at 11.. Interned at Google at 18.. Dropped out of MIT to start a company that built AI tools for mechanical engineering.. That company failed.. So he pivoted.. And built Cursor.. An AI-powered code editor that writes software for you.. Here's how fast it grew.. $100 million in annual revenue in 12 months.. Fastest in SaaS history.. Broke every record ever set by Slack, Zoom, and Wiz.. $500 million by month 21.. $1 billion by November 2025.. $2 billion by February 2026.. Projected to hit $6 billion by end of year.. Zero marketing spend.. Not a single dollar.. Pure word of mouth from developers who couldn't stop talking about it.. Over 1 billion lines of code accepted per day.. Used by 70% of Fortune 1000 companies.. Every single one of Nvidia's 40,000 engineers uses it.. Coinbase hit 100% adoption among their developers.. And he did this with a team of four MIT co-founders.. One of them was a three-time International Math Olympiad competitor from Pakistan.. Another was a college squash captain with zero startup experience who built the entire product strategy.. They spent zero on sales.. Zero on ads.. Zero on growth hacking.. The product sold itself.. But here's where the story takes a turn nobody expected.. Even at $50 billion valuation.. Even generating billions in revenue.. They hit a wall.. Not a market wall.. A physics wall.. They couldn't get enough GPUs to train their next AI model.. The physical chips didn't exist in sufficient quantities for them to buy.. Money couldn't solve the problem.. Enter Elon Musk.. On April 21.. SpaceX announced a deal to potentially acquire Cursor for $60 billion.. The largest acquisition option in tech history.. The structure is insane.. SpaceX gives Cursor immediate access to Colossus.. xAI's supercomputer equivalent to one million Nvidia H100 GPUs.. For nine months of joint development.. At the end.. SpaceX can buy the company for $60 billion.. If they don't buy it.. They owe Cursor a $10 billion breakup fee.. The largest breakup fee in corporate history.. Think about what that means for Cursor.. Either they get acquired for $60 billion.. Or they walk away with $10 billion in cash and nine months of free training on the most powerful supercomputer on earth.. There is no losing scenario.. And here's why Musk wants it.. SpaceX is preparing for an IPO at $1.75 trillion.. The biggest IPO ever.. But aerospace alone can't justify that number.. By merging xAI into SpaceX.. And now acquiring Cursor.. Musk transforms SpaceX from a rocket company into an AI empire that owns the compute, the models, and the developer tools.. Cursor is the missing piece.. The application layer that puts xAI's models into the daily workflow of every Fortune 500 engineering team.. Oh and one more thing.. In 2022.. FTX's trading firm Alameda Research made a seed investment in Cursor.. During the FTX bankruptcy.. Liquidators sold that stake for $200,000.. That stake is now worth approximately $3 billion.. Sam Bankman-Fried called it the worst liquidation decision in venture capital history.. From a prison cell.. A failed mechanical engineering startup.. Pivoted by four kids from MIT.. Zero marketing.. Zero sales team.. Built the fastest growing software company in history.. And now SpaceX is writing a $60 billion check for it.. This is the most insane founder story in Silicon Valley history.. And most people haven't even heard of Michael Truell.

Evan Luthra

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Nat Eliason’s (Nat Eliason) career arc is borderline absurd—but it works. He’ll spot a new tool or trend, master it, build a business around it, and move on. Nat’s pulled it off with the note-taking wave ($600k in sales from a Roam Research course), real estate (6x return flipping property in Austin), and crypto (published his insider story with Random House). Now it’s AI: he’s running a viral course on building apps with AI—$200k in pre-sales in just a week, 800 students and counting. I’ve known Nat for a long time and I think he has a great sense for where the puck is headed. He was one of the first guests I had on the podcast and I was delighted to have him on again. Here are a few takeaways from our conversation: - Coding with AI has become orders of magnitude easier for non-technical people over the last 2 years—Nat rarely has to help students fix bugs; they troubleshoot in Cursor on their own. - AI coding assistants are creating new behaviours in programming, like using a speech-to-text model to talk to an agent and having it write code for you. - The traditional learning curve of coding is flattening because AI tools let beginners build and iterate in faster feedback loops. - AI has given Nat leverage in spades—it increases his ability to be a creator while also building a robust business with as few people to manage as possible. He demos an AI book editor he coded for his sci-fi novel. - In the age of AI, software is becoming content and the barriers to create are lower than ever—but custom software for everything isn’t the answer. Nat’s model is that personalized tools make sense for that one thing you care the most about. - Nat believes that the future of writing with AI is a Cursor-style interface with a model that’s trained on your style and voice. This episode is a must-watch for writers, creators, and anyone interested in the future of product building. Watch below! Timestamps: Introduction: 00:01:45 The origins of Nat’s viral course on building apps with AI: 00:11:45 How coding with AI has evolved over the last two years: 00:18:46 Nat creates an app using Composer, Cursor’s AI assistant: 00:22:22 Tactical tips for coding with Cursor: 00:26:06 How coding with AI is creating new behaviours in programming: 00:29:06 What excites Nat the most about the future of AI: 00:32:41 A demo of Hubbard, the AI editor Nat built for his science fiction writing: 00:38:58 When does it makes sense to build custom software: 00:44:52 Nat’s take on the future of writing with AI: 00:49:18

Nat Eliason’s (Nat Eliason) career arc is borderline absurd—but it works. He’ll spot a new tool or trend, master it, build a business around it, and move on. Nat’s pulled it off with the note-taking wave ($600k in sales from a Roam Research course), real estate (6x return flipping property in Austin), and crypto (published his insider story with Random House). Now it’s AI: he’s running a viral course on building apps with AI—$200k in pre-sales in just a week, 800 students and counting. I’ve known Nat for a long time and I think he has a great sense for where the puck is headed. He was one of the first guests I had on the podcast and I was delighted to have him on again. Here are a few takeaways from our conversation: - Coding with AI has become orders of magnitude easier for non-technical people over the last 2 years—Nat rarely has to help students fix bugs; they troubleshoot in Cursor on their own. - AI coding assistants are creating new behaviours in programming, like using a speech-to-text model to talk to an agent and having it write code for you. - The traditional learning curve of coding is flattening because AI tools let beginners build and iterate in faster feedback loops. - AI has given Nat leverage in spades—it increases his ability to be a creator while also building a robust business with as few people to manage as possible. He demos an AI book editor he coded for his sci-fi novel. - In the age of AI, software is becoming content and the barriers to create are lower than ever—but custom software for everything isn’t the answer. Nat’s model is that personalized tools make sense for that one thing you care the most about. - Nat believes that the future of writing with AI is a Cursor-style interface with a model that’s trained on your style and voice. This episode is a must-watch for writers, creators, and anyone interested in the future of product building. Watch below! Timestamps: Introduction: 00:01:45 The origins of Nat’s viral course on building apps with AI: 00:11:45 How coding with AI has evolved over the last two years: 00:18:46 Nat creates an app using Composer, Cursor’s AI assistant: 00:22:22 Tactical tips for coding with Cursor: 00:26:06 How coding with AI is creating new behaviours in programming: 00:29:06 What excites Nat the most about the future of AI: 00:32:41 A demo of Hubbard, the AI editor Nat built for his science fiction writing: 00:38:58 When does it makes sense to build custom software: 00:44:52 Nat’s take on the future of writing with AI: 00:49:18

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27,207 views • 1 year ago