The quiet, galactic ambitions of Cursor CEO Michael Truell

Cursor CEO Michael Truell. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images; BI T n 2019, Michael Truell, a shy, 18-year-old MIT student, sat staring at a coding test in the cafe of the Computer History Museum. It was supposed to take him about an hour, but he finished it in less than 10 minutes. "He crushed it," recalls tech investor Ali Partovi, who runs a program to find the world's best coders while they're still undergrads. With the extra time, Partovi asked Truell to give him a coding ques...