Chris Albon got a free year after complaining publicly.
The funny thing is the Cursor founder DMd everyone with, “Want to try my tool for AI enabled writing?”
And no one really wanted that, so very few people responded.
Hats off for iterating and finding a hell of a business.
I've now seen 50 screenshots of the Cursor founder in people's DMs and I'm convinced the real product was the outbound. man ran a one-man SDR team against the entire tech industry and closed it at $60B
Positive users praise the Cursor founder’s persistence in shipping a code tool after failed DM outreach, while negative users mock the personal outreach as likely to disappoint.
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This isn’t a brag that I know the Cursor founders because I don’t (I do wish them all the best though) but years ago I complained about a particular issue with Cursor and immediately they hit me up and offered a year for free. So impressive.
I've now seen 50 screenshots of the Cursor founder in people's DMs and I'm convinced the real product was the outbound. man ran a one-man SDR team against the entire tech industry and closed it at $60B
@Austen Seems like they pivoted 2+ times before they found something people wanted!
And both of their pivots are now legitimate spaces
timing + exec
@Austen never ever ignore such DM's from anyone again. :)
@chrisalbon GATOR CAN DISAPPOINT U WITH A LIFETIME GUARANTEE
@Austen the cold outreach failing but still shipping is actually the whole story. most people would've taken the silence as validation to quit
@Austen lol the original pitch vs what it became
classic founder journey - nobody wanted the thing you built so you keep iterating until you find what actually works
@Austen A lot of the cringe outbound chat is just cope tbh. He kept going and found the wedge.