Dylan SloanJun 17, 2026 – 5.46amAround the time ChatGPT and Github’s Copilot brought AI to the masses, four MIT classmates with backgrounds in computer science and finance decided they wanted in. They just didn’t quite know how.“It started from a very ‘solution-in-search-of-a-problem’ place,” Michael Truell, co-founder and chief executive officer of Cursor, the company they started together, said in a June 2025 podcast appearance.BloombergSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles