Michael Truell

Cofounder & CEO, Anysphere

Michael Truell is co-founder and chief executive of Anysphere, the maker of the Cursor AI code editor, which SpaceX bought for $60 billion in August 2026.

Net worth: $2.6B; Forbes, Oct 19, 2026
Company: 1

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Building Cursor, the editor that made coding agents a paid habit rather than a demo.

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Truell co-founded Anysphere in 2022 with three MIT friends; co-founder Aman Sanger was also his high school classmate at Horace Mann School.
SpaceX bought Cursor for $60 billion in August 2026; before the deal Cursor said it had more than $1 billion in annualized revenue.
By Truell's count, OpenAI models carried about 5% of Cursor's traffic before OpenAI moved to end access on November 12, 2026.

Age: 26
Based: San Francisco, CA
Primary role: Co-founder and CEO, Anysphere (Cursor)
Citizenship: United States

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SpaceX paid $60 billion for Cursor. Sophos says Gold Ogre ransomware used its agents on real intrusions

Sophos reports the Gold Ogre ransomware crew ran intrusions through Cursor agents to domain administrator while SpaceX's $60 billion all-stock buy counts down to OpenAI's November 12 cutoff. Enterprise trust in a $2.6 billion-revenue platform is now the test.

October 31, 2026 · 2 min read

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Latest on Michael Truell

SpaceX paid $60 billion for Cursor. Sophos says Gold Ogre ransomware used its agents on real intrusions

Cursor's trojanized Claude Code extension hit up to 5,000 users; OpenAI cuts Cursor's models November 12

Cursor stopped bundling Claude just as Anthropic courts a $2 trillion listing

Musk paid $60 billion for Cursor; OpenAI just hired its two top sellers

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Latest on Michael Truell

SpaceX paid $60 billion for Cursor. Sophos says Gold Ogre ransomware used its agents on real intrusions

Cursor's trojanized Claude Code extension hit up to 5,000 users; OpenAI cuts Cursor's models November 12

Cursor stopped bundling Claude just as Anthropic courts a $2 trillion listing

Musk paid $60 billion for Cursor; OpenAI just hired its two top sellers

Connections

In the same stories

Ties, as Forbes lists them

Either side by net worth