Sarah Wang

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1,664 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard 18 Sep

Sarah Wang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The a16z Show · Inside Cursor: The Anatomy of a Generational Startup · 27 Aug 2026 podcast

That does not scare us. matched

They went and got all the users in record time. matched

Now they have the asset, the data, the know how to build their own models. matched

You really couldn't do the flip of that unless you started as a frontier lab. matched

So to kick off, I actually wanted to take us back to early twenty twenty-four. matched

And obviously you guys led the deal in I think it was May of twenty twenty four that year. matched

But can you walk us through what was going on in the Q one, Q two of that year and maybe how you guys started working with Cursor well before we ever partnered officially with them? matched

forever ago. matched

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Wait, wait, actually on that point, can I ask you guys a question? matched

Because I remember that meeting so vividly when you brought Michael in for the A. matched

And one of the things that he said no to was actually, and to your point on there were a lot of plugins, right? matched

And so there was this maybe more consensus thought that a VS Code fork versus the plug-in into VS Code would one would be better for enterprise, and it wasn't the former, it would be the latter. matched

And I recall, I think it was you, Martine, or maybe it was both of you, asking him matched

Well, are you gonna get enterprise customers with this medium? matched

Right. matched

And he looked at matched

all of us in the eye with high conviction and well I'm gonna turn it back to you. matched

And what did you think of his answer and what gave you guys the conviction to take a pretty contrarian bet at the time? matched

Yeah, I mean, I think the timelines are so compressed here. matched

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