{"id":741172,"date":"2026-06-16T23:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741172\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:41:09","slug":"cursor-spacex-deal-turns-young-co-founders-into-overnight-billionaires-in-their-20s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741172\/","title":{"rendered":"Cursor SpaceX deal turns young co-founders into overnight billionaires in their 20s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around the time ChatGPT and GitHub\u2019s Copilot brought AI to the masses, four MIT classmates with backgrounds in computer science and finance decided they wanted in. They just didn\u2019t quite know how.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt started from a very \u2018solution-in-search-of-a-problem\u2019 place,\u201d Michael Truell, co-founder and chief executive officer of Cursor, the company they started together, said in a June 2025 podcast appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around the time ChatGPT and GitHub\u2019s Copilot brought AI to the masses, four MIT classmates with backgrounds in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-741172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}