Today’s Top Talent Pools

SpaceX (Nasdaq: SPCX) exercised a call option to acquire AI coding startup Cursor (Anysphere) for $60 billion in shares, per an SEC filing — the largest acquisition ever of a VC-backed startup. Cursor raised $3.38B since 2022 from Thrive Capital, a16z, OpenAI Startup Fund, Accel, DST Global, Coatue, and Nvidia. ARR surpassed $3B by May 2026.

  1. Arvid Lunnemark in SF (Founder @ Integrous Research)

    1. Role: Co-Founder @ Anysphere (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Quant @ Jane Street, SWE @ Stripe, MIT CS

    3. Description: "We are a research lab devoted to protecting individual human freedom before, during, and after the start of the superintelligence era"

    4. Contact: Site

  2. Shayan Pardis in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Research Engineer @ Cursor (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT CSAIL, ML Research Intern @ Backflip, SWE Intern @ Citadel

    3. Description: "Something new"

    4. Contact: [email protected], Site

  3. Colin Zhao in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Engineering and Research @ Anysphere (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: MTS @ Etched, Co-Founder & CTO @ Toppings

    3. Description: Left Etched 1/25. UCLA class of '27

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  4. Natasha Gude in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: SWE @ Cursor (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ WhatsApp, Facebook, VMware, Stanford MS & BS

    3. Description: Left Cursor on 12/25

  5. David Balatero in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Staff SWE @ Cursor (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Staff SWE @ Graphite (acq by Cursor), Staff SWE @ Stripe, 1st Eng Hire @ Boundless Immigration, Co-Founder @ Crystal Commerce, UW BS CS

    3. Description: Left Cursor 5/26

  6. Locke Cai in NJ (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Research Engineering Intern @ Cursor (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: MTS @ xAI, Research Intern @ Together AI, Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT

    3. Description: Left xAI 5/26. MIT CS class of '26

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  7. Andrew Healey in London (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Engineer and Researcher @ Cursor (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Machine Learning Intern @ Roboflow

    3. Description: University of Cambridge CS class of '26

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