Founder Profile
Michael Truell
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Michael Truell?
Michael Truell is a founder of Anysphere Inc. (Cursor), which was founded in 2022 with Sualeh Asif, Aman Sanger and Arvid Lunnemark.
- Company founded
- Anysphere Inc. (Cursor)
- Founded
- 2022
- Co-founders
- Sualeh Asif, Aman Sanger and Arvid Lunnemark
Background
Studied computer science and mathematics at MIT, where he met his co-founders.
Founding Story
Michael Truell is co-founder and CEO of Anysphere (Cursor). He co-founded the company in 2022 as an MIT student and led it through funding rounds at $400 million, $9.9 billion and $29.3 billion valuations, the growth of annualized revenue past $4 billion, and the $60 billion sale to SpaceX in 2026. He remained CEO after the deal closed. Press reports described him as 25 years old at the time of the acquisition and noted that he used Cursor's developer community as a hiring pipeline. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Sources
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- Cursor (company) - Wikipedia (Anysphere Inc. (Cursor))
- Forbes: Cursor Hits $4 Billion Annualized Revenue (Anysphere Inc. (Cursor))