Ben Lang
@benln
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@cursor_ai team, @nextplayso newsletter
Joined February 2009
A personal update: I joined the Cursor team earlier this year. Excited to be working with this small but mighty (growing!) team on the best tool for building with AI. Cursor is a beloved product by so many and I’m thrilled to support such a special community.
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Just signed and wired my 19th angel investment of this year. Grateful to be a tiny supporter of these amazing founders.
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Which accelerators should every pre-seed founder consider first these days?
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At this rate, Cafe Cursor is going to take place in at least 100 cities in 2026 (possibly more!) Cursor community is something else.
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Take a peek if you’re a Cursor fan and want to do more with us. We’re intentionally keeping this program small, but doing our best to bring on new members!
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Knowing how to send great cold emails is a superpower. My learnings over the years: • 2-3 sentences max, reads like a text • have a clear ask • feels personalized • punchy subject line • avoid vague requests like "pick your brain" • keep it casual • no signature
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The idea of Cafe Cursor came from Cursor's SF office being next to a neighborhood cafe called Cafe Francisco. We thought it would be nice to rent it out for the day, invite our users to grab coffee, meet the team, and build together. Excited to do this in many more cities!
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Results are in: • @varadh - angel investor • @cyantist - Long Journey • @vsodera - Supercharge • @DStrachman - 1517 • @alanaagoyal - basecase • @edsim, @etdurbin - Boldstart • @darian314, @brackin, @thezbg - Gradient • @jsngr - lil fund • @MaxClaussen - SystemOne VC •
Who are the pre-seed / seed investors every founder should want on their cap table these days?
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Who are the pre-seed / seed investors every founder should want on their cap table these days?
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We raised $11M from Keith Rabois at Khosla and Felicis to make MCP work at scale. MCP is everywhere, but it's MESSY. No security. No auth layer. No visibility. No control. We built Runlayer to enable AI.
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@benkimbuilds @_javierivero you are both incredible, grateful to have you in our community!
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Cafe Cursor is now booked for: • Mumbai - Nov 21 • Beijing - Nov 22 • São Paulo - Nov 27 • Cartago - Nov 28 • Waterloo - Nov 29 • Toronto - Nov 30 • Bogotá - Dec 6 • London - Dec 10
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• @browserbase - 12 former founders (30% of team) • @sfcompute - 8 former founders (50% of team) • @OpenRouterAI - 7 former founders (33% of team) • @speakeasydev - 8 former founders (36% of team) • @HappenstanceAI - 3 former founders (50% of team)
• 50 former founders work at Cursor • 35 former founders work at Notion What other companies do this?
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• @supabase - 30 former founders • @ExaAILabs - 10 former founders • @thecorgicompany - 30 former founders • @fyxerai - 20 former founders • @mintlify - 6 former founders
• 50 former founders work at Cursor • 35 former founders work at Notion What other companies do this?
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Grateful to work with such a remarkable team and community. Time to keep building.
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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We're booking out a cafe on December 10th in London Grab coffee, Cursor credits, co-work, and meet the team Let me know if you'd like to come by
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