On June 17, Bloomberg reported that SpaceX had acquired Cursor, an AI programming tool, for a staggering $60 billion. This acquisition catapulted Cursor's four young founders, all MIT alumni, into the billionaire's club. In 2022, amid the surge in popularity of AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, which were propelling AI into the mainstream market, these four classmates—each with a background in computer science or finance—decided to seize the opportunity presented by the AI boom. However, at that time, they had not yet pinpointed a specific direction for their venture.
