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The Founding Four
Four plates, four founders. Each held roughly 4.5% of the company, and each walked away with about $2.4 billion.
From the article Cursor: How Four 25-Year-Olds Sold Their Startup to Elon Musk for $60 Billion →
Tap to enlarge SourceFounder stakes and ~4.5% holdings: Forbes estimate, August 2026 · backgrounds per Contrary Research and company bios · Sanger and Lunnemark titled Cofounder where sources disagree on COO/CTO.