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The Trap
Every exit Cursor could take led back to the same handful of companies: its seed investor, its model supplier, the funds that had already backed both.
From the article Cursor: How Four 25-Year-Olds Sold Their Startup to Elon Musk for $60 Billion →SourceOpenAI seed and termination: TechCrunch and OpenAI · Iconiq passing at $50B: The Information · Claude Code adoption: JetBrains (estimate) · OpenAI’s termination came after the close.