Michael Truell is co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, the AI code editor. He co-founded the company in 2022 with MIT classmates Aman Sanger, Sualeh Asif, and Arvid Lunnemark. Cursor became one of the fastest-growing AI developer tools of the mid-2020s.12
At a glance
- Current role
- Co-founder and chief executive officer
- Company
- Cursor
- Fields
- Developer tools, Language models
- Sources cited
- 2
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
Cursor / Anysphere
Truell leads Anysphere as CEO. In interviews such as The Verge's Decoder, he describes pivoting from early CAD experiments to building an AI-native coding environment that embeds frontier models into the editor workflow.12
Timeline
- Co-founded Anysphere / Cursor.2
Where they work
- Cursor 9 people in the wiki
Related people
- Niklas MuennighoffAlso at Cursor
- Luke Melas-KyriaziAlso at Cursor
- Alexander WettigAlso at Cursor
- Arvid LunnemarkAlso at Cursor
- Sasha RushAlso at Cursor
- Christopher AkikiLanguage models · Developer tools
- Raymond LiLanguage models · Developer tools
- Jiayi WengLanguage models · Developer tools
- Michele CatastaLanguage models · Developer tools
- Omar KhattabDeveloper tools · Language models
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2 sources · profile reviewed Oct 23, 2026 · data updated Oct 23, 2026