Just saw reports that SpaceX acquired Cursor in an all-stock deal valued at $60 billion.
This is one of the most insane startup outcomes we've ever seen:
Cursor was founded only ~4 years ago.
The reported price tag would make it one of the largest startup acquisitions in history.
It went from "just a VS Code wrapper" jokes to becoming the default AI coding tool for a huge number of developers.
SpaceX/xAI would instantly gain access to one of the most valuable datasets in AI: how millions of developers actually write, edit, debug, and ship code.
People spend a lot of time preparing for a product launch, but after every campaign, they usually look back and think, "We could have done this better."
Not because they didn't prepare, but because there were things they simply didn't know beforehand.