Ayush
@ay_ushr
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The Stripe for Stripe @autumnpricing
SF / London
Joined January 2022
At the start of this year it felt like there were a few IDEs in the race. It was so exciting trying them all out and finding new ways of coding Few months later Cursor’s at 1B ARR and I barely remember the names of the others Unprecedented level of domination… gg I guess
We've raised $2.3B in Series D funding from Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Thrive, Nvidia, and Google. We're also happy to share that Cursor has grown to over $1B in annualized revenue and now produces more code than any other agent in the world. This funding will allow
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I've spent my whole life trying to make absence mean something. When I was five, the piano bench became my world. Practicing eight, ten hours a day wasn't punishment; I learned early to speak love through sacrifice. Every practice session was also a choice to say no. No to
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Truly customer obsessed founder Glad to have you on board @conor_ai 🫶
early on at @hyperspell we did things that don’t scale onboarded in person, sent custom stripe links, priced by vibe it worked until 30+ customers and too many demos pricing got messy, we needed scale one call with @ay_ushr and @autumnpricing and I was sold legendary
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Introducing Graft The top 10 traders on Polymarket made $8.5M last month Graft is the #1 platform to deploy money into the best traders in prediction markets We're the future of social trading
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My cofounder when I ask him why we haven’t shipped any new features in a week
I don’t understand 🎀 Can someone explain to a non-technical Also I’m glad I don’t understand this 💫 Just going to go dilly dally outside instead
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there's no way i'm letting my kids do a startup until they're at least 35
there's way too much dunking on young people's startups until i hit 25 i don't even think my brain was fully developed and it took longer to make mistakes and learn everything i rely on today them getting even a single thing right is a miracle
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A non obvious insight that we're learning the hard way: building new features customers ask for is 1 week of fun coding making existing features good is 3 months of uncertainty, mistakes and rewrites but it turns out a 10% easier to use app leads to 2x more users
Turns out, integrating @autumnpricing into @yourhannah_com was so painless I thought I missed something, just a couple API swaps and the dashboard snapped into place All live now, production env. Users should see new usage meters and locked features if they're over limit (with
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If you're going to flex revenue numbers you better be damn certain it's gonna keep going up Stay grounded folks
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Companies i'd defo work for if my startup goes balls up: @mintlify
@linear
@figma
@greptile
@convex_dev
@better_auth
@stripe (sorry)
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One of our users is pivoting and asked how I knew from the start that AI companies needed better billing tools The truth is we had no idea. We were exploring an idea for an API gateway, when someone happened to say they hated managing their billing credits. Even after that, we
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The biggest sign a YC company is working? They’ve dropped “backed by Y Combinator” from the landing page
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Build open source. Go into debt if you have to. It’s literally free labor
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Something I'm surprised by is how much pull we're feeling from the vibe coding market A lot of founders are building for non-technical customers and opinionated devtools massively reduce the chance of LLMs making a mistake Which for billing I guess is pretty important...
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I wish someone had told me this before I wasted so much time reading startup books Listening to business advice is like trying to use someone else’s winning lottery ticket Beyond the basic YC mantras and avoiding common patterns of failure, it’s mostly just luck + consistency
You should ignore like 90% of startup advice. Startups are an art, not a science.
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