When I was VP of Product, this was the exact rubric I used to pass or fail PMs in the metrics round. I've coached 100s through:. → “Analytical” at Microsoft.→ “Analytical Thinking” at Meta.→ “Analytics & Metrics” at Google. Focus on these 4 things to nail it:

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Fine-tuning doesn’t save you if you have a worse base model.

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When COVID hit, Zoom didn’t just survive. It exploded. User growth went through the roof. Metrics skyrocketed. And yet, everything kept working. Most teams would scramble to keep the product afloat. Zoom? It scaled like it was built for that moment. As John put it in our latest

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AI product discovery has 4 key steps. Here's a masterclass on each (from an expert):. 1. Wonder - 02:12.2. Explore - 28:59.3. Make - 36:00.4. Impact - 54:33

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Epilogue - The Vision Ahead. For Cursor, this is just the beginning. In the last month alone, they've shipped Cursor 1.0 and mobile agents. Their goal isn't to build a better code editor. It's to invent an entirely new way of building software.

Chapter 5 - Unprecedented Growth. The obsession paid off. Cursor became the fastest-growing software startup in history, reaching $100M ARR in 12 months, then $300M ARR just 12 months later. Today, they serve over half the Fortune 500, including Nvidia, Adobe, and Uber.

Chapter 4 - The Obsession with Product Quality. What happened next surprised everyone, including the founders. There was an immediate rush of interest but the team didn't get caught up in the hype. They stayed obsessively focused on product quality.

Chapter 3 - The Fork Decision. When they decided to build a coding tool, they faced a critical choice: build a VS Code extension or fork VS Code entirely? . As you guessed right. they chose the later. And it changed everything.

Chapter 2 - The False Start. Initially, the team didn't work on coding tools. Instead, they picked the mechanical engineering industry. But there were problems: founder-market fit was terrible and the technology wasn't ready. So, they returned to programming.

Chapter 1 - The Scaling Laws Revelation. In 2020, OpenAI published their scaling laws papers. For these 4 MIT grads, they were a roadmap to the future. Early access to GitHub Copilot's beta also made it clear:. All of programming would eventually flow through AI.

Prologue - 4 Coders. Cursor's Founding Team began coding at an early age. Some worked on recommendation systems at big tech, others built robots that could learn from reward data, etc. But despite their AI expertise, they weren't initially building what would become Cursor.

This is how $9.9B Cursor Started: 4 kids in college. 4 years later, it's doing $500M ARR. This is the story:

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