Roman Ugarte
Roman Ugarte is a product and growth leader at SpaceXAI, where he helped incubate and build GrokBot, a knowledge-work AI agent. He previously served as Head of Growth at Cursor, scaling the AI coding company from approximately 15 employees to over 800 before its acquisition by SpaceX. He holds a bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard University.
“about a month from first line of code to here's a functional, useful product that the core team is excited about”
Source→“This would not have been possible if it had been, I think, a much bigger group. I think it took a small focus group that was completely isolated from the rest of the company... It was like a separate part of the office where this team sat, private Slack channels”
Source→“You add new tabs for each new form factor. And it feels a little cluttered... it is kind of a shipping your org chart style thing that I think users are reacting negatively to”
Source→“not because of any incorrect decisions... but this cultural inability to move quickly and to change to meet the moment”
Source→“I was like a very early user of Metaphor at the time, which became Ea. And I love kind of using Ea to do all of these maybe more strange queries over the internet... I love Ea”
Source→“Employee #15 at Cursor, led growth for two years, now leads product for GrokBot from early prototype to launch”
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