Ben Lang
@cursor_ai team, @nextplayso newsletter
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Which accelerators should every pre-seed founder consider first these days?
Cafe Cursor is coming to: • London • Buenos Aires • Montreal • Stockholm • Mexico City • Toronto • Chiang Mai • Bangalore • Bangkok • San Diego Stay tuned!
Cursor is hiring for many roles If any of these sound like you, reach out and I'll do my best to pass along if it looks like a good fit
Knowing how to send great cold emails is a superpower. My learnings over the years: • 2-3 sentences max, reads like a text • have a clear ask • feels personalized • punchy subject line • avoid vague requests like "pick your brain" • keep it casual • no signature
How to actually get things done: no meetings by default quick huddles on Slack async work in Notion docs
I put together a list of 34 startups with small teams (<10 people) backed by top-tier funds, all are hiring:
Top results: 1) @cursor_ai - AI coding 2) @claudeai - AI assistant 3) @NotebookLM - AI research 4) @WisprFlow - voice dictation 5) @meetgranola - meeting notes 6) @comet - AI browser 7) @NanoBanana - AI images 8) @ManusAI - general AI agent 9) @Tesla - full-self driving
40,000+ people signed up for Cursor community events in the past 6 months.
• 50 former founders work at Cursor • 35 former founders work at Notion What other companies do this?
Cursor team is stacked on X, shortlist for insider updates: • @ryolu_ - design • @ericzakariasson - dev rel • @TheRohanVarma - product • @leerob - dev rel • @JuanRezzio - QA engineering • @davidrfgomes - engineering • @austinnickpiel - engineering • @milichab - product • @ajhofmann18 - engineering • @msfeldstein - engineering • @baltaaazr - engineering • @shaoruu - engineering • @nickwm - field engineering
To say the past 9 months at Cursor have been wild would be an understatement. And this next week will be the biggest of them all.