Comment by estearum
1 day ago
I mean... Cursor is the CEO's first non-internship job. And it was a VSCode Extension that caught fire atop the largest technological groundswell in a few decades.
The default assumption should be that this is a moderately bright, very inexperienced person who has been put way out over his skis.
That tracks with what I'm seeing.
Unfortunately for them, I've seen things go very very wrong in this situation. It's very easy to mistake luck-based financial success for skill-based, especially when it happens fresh out of university.