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Rank #2912

Michael Truell

Net worth $1.3B

AI software · United States

Born
Sep 04, 2000
Age
25
Source
AI software
Residence
San Francisco, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Children
0
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Michael Truell is the cofounder and CEO of Cursor, the maker of a popular AI code editing tool.
  • He cofounded the company with three friends from MIT in 2022.
  • Cursor reached a $29.3 billion valuation in November 2025, after raising $2.3 billion in a funding round co-led by VC heavyweights Accel and Coatue.
  • Cursor claims to have more than $1 billion in annualized revenue, making it one of the fastest growing AI startups.
  • Today, millions of software developers at 50,000 enterprises like Nvidia, Adobe, Uber and Shopify use Cursor to generate and edit chunks of code.
  • Truell and his billionaire cofounder Aman Sanger were high school classmates at New York City's Horace Mann School.