Matt Bornstein
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6 recordings
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first heard May 2025
last heard 27 Aug
Matt Bornstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's what really sort of matters now.
So anyway, we were in this world, as Martine said, we were talking to a ton of very smart, very interesting people working on coding in various ways.
The cursor team kind of stood out because not only did they sort of align with the things that we thought about the world, more importantly, smarter people than us and engineers working at the time, the leading AI companies like OpenAI, Mid Journey, Replicate, uh a bunch of others all kind of use this and subscribe to this model.
And the team, frankly, just seemed kind of special.
Right.
They had an unusual degree of focus.
I remember we got Michael to come pitch our GP group and ninety percent of the meeting was him saying no to things.
Which which is just like like for for like founders out there working on products that you love, like
VCs will always ask you kind of dumb questions about other things you might do or things you're related to or whatever.
And Michael literally just sat there and like
Very politely listened to all the questions and said, Hm, interesting.
No, we're not gonna
Yeah, no, I think that's exactly right.
And and I think they had the ambition and the courage to kind of do the maximal form of what the product would look like.
Right.
I think
You know, f as founders, we all want to be ambitious, right?
And we wanna push the to the maximum point the Pareto frontier, but like you have to kind of know what the curve is.
And they just kind of knew what the curve was, right?
And then get distracted by the sort of nonproduct things.
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