Business Chief Magazine September 2026 | Page 35

TOP 10 | SCALEUP CEOs

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Michael Truell

Company: Cursor Revenue: US $ 3bn Founded: 2022
Founding the company in 2022 with friends from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michael created Cursor as a way to combine AI and coding tools for simplifying software production. Under Michael’ s leadership, the company reached a US $ 29.3bn valuation just three years after it was created. Four years after its founding, Michael established the company as a name within the global tech industry, with giants like Nvidia, Adobe and Shopify using the Cursor platform to generate and edit large sections of code. businesschief. com 35