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Fortune
Fortune
Technology
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO is a former Google intern who just inked a $60 billion deal with SpaceX

(Credit: Big Event Media/Getty Images for HumanX Conference)

Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO, Michael Truell, helped take the AI coding company from a college passion project to a potential $60 billion acquisition by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

On Tuesday, SpaceX announced in a post on X that Cursor gave SpaceX the right to acquire the company later this year for $60 billion. If SpaceX doesn’t buy Cursor, it will pay $10 billion for their work together, the company said.

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