Ben
Michael Truell is the co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the San Francisco-based company behind the AI-powered code editor Cursor. He founded Anysphere in 2022 alongside Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger after the four dropped out of MIT. Anysphere builds tools designed to create a human-AI hybrid programmer, with Cursor as its flagship product.
“My business partner, Ben, who's the guy who emailed 77 times to you and your team to get you to be on this podcast... he's an amazing connector. He's an amazing supporter. He wanted this moment to happen, even though he's not at the table.”
Source→“Mercor might not exist without Prod. All our initial customers were Prod teams — Ben (founding CEO of Anysphere), Cofactory, Rob and Gavin from Etched, and others.”
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