Cursor
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November 10, 2025
" We are in a market that's had an iPod moment and it's going to have an iPhone moment. "
Cursor CEO on Scaling Through 'Mayhem' and the Coming 'iPhone Moment' for AI Coding
Michael Truell • CEO
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Interview Archive
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2025
October
X, Tesla, xAI
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October 31, 2025
" Unfortunately, OpenAI needs to change its name to 'Closed for Maximum Profit AI.' "
Elon Musk on 3 Years of X, The OpenAI Lawsuit, and the 'Supersonic Tsunami' of AI
Elon Musk • CTO of X, CEO of Tesla
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Tesla / SpaceX / xAI
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October 30, 2025
" I think there's about a 20% chance that AI leads to human extinction. "
The intelligence explosion, AI extinction risk, and the future of human civilization
Elon Musk • CEO
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Superhuman
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October 30, 2025
" We spent the last 16 years turning people into super writers. Now we can spend the next few decades turning them into superhumans. "
Grammarly Rebrands to Superhuman, Unveils AI Agent Platform 'Go' and New Product Suite
Shishir Mehrotra • CEO
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Y Combinator
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October 20, 2025
" YC startups are now expected to grow 10–20% every single week. "
Surviving the AI wave: YC's new growth standard
Garry Tan • President & CEO
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Perplexity AI
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October 18, 2025
" We're giving everyone the power that billionaires have. "
Comet and the race to democratize billionaire-level assistance
Aravind Srinivas • CEO
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Warp
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October 17, 2025
" The Turing test has passed, and no one seemed to care. "
Distilling intelligence, automated development, and the future of Warp
Zach Lloyd • CEO
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September
Telegram
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September 30, 2025
" The more pressure I get, the more resilient and defiant I become. I would rather lose everything I have than yield to this pressure. "
Pavel Durov on His 'Kafkaesque' French Arrest, Resisting State Pressure, and the Principles of Telegram
Pavel Durov • Founder and CEO
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Grok
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September 29, 2025
" The countries that control compute will control AI. And you cannot have compute without energy. "
The Geopolitics of AI: Compute, Energy, and the New Arms Race
Jonathan Ross • Founder & CEO
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ElevenLabs
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September 8, 2025
" We went 20 months to $100 million in ARR, and then just 10 months to $200 million. "
ElevenLabs' Breakneck Growth: Co-Founder Reveals Path to $200M ARR
Matty Staniszewski • Co-founder
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August
Notion
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August 15, 2025
" In 2015, we were weeks away from shutting down. We had built a product that nobody wanted. "
Building tools for thought: Notion's journey from near-bankruptcy to 100 million users
Ivan Zhao • Co-founder & CEO
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Anthropic
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August 1, 2025
" We went from $1.4 billion to $4.5 billion in ARR in just four months. "
From OpenAI to Anthropic: Building AI with safety at its core
Dario Amodei • CEO
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June
Tesla / SpaceX / xAI
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June 17, 2025
" Digital superintelligence could arrive as soon as 2025 or 2026. "
AI superintelligence, first principles thinking, and the future of civilization
Elon Musk • CEO
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Google
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June 5, 2025
" I've always believed AI will be bigger than the internet. "
AI beyond the internet: Sundar Pichai on Google's next platform shift
Sundar Pichai • CEO
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April
Bolt.new / Stackblitz
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April 23, 2025
" We went from $0.7 million in ARR to $20.7 million in like two months. "
Bolt.new CEO on a 'Seven-Year Overnight Success,' Scaling to $20M ARR in Two Months
Eric Simons • CEO
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Microsoft
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April 9, 2025
" AI won't create a winner-takes-all scenario. This plurality is healthy for innovation. "
Microsoft's three CEOs reunite: A conversation spanning 50 years of innovation
Satya Nadella • CEO
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