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Cursor just hit a $9.6B valuation — here's why investors keep doubling down
Original: Cursor raises $200M Series C at $9.6B valuation
Cursor, the AI-first code editor, just closed a $200M Series C led by Thrive Capital. The valuation jumped from $2.5B last summer to $9.6B today — a 4× in nine months. The company says it's now profitable and processing more than 100 million AI completions a day. It's the rare AI-tooling story that didn't just raise cheap money — it earned its multiples.
A 14-year Googler's exit memo is making the rounds
Original: Why I left Google after 14 years
A long-tenured Google engineer published a 4,000-word essay about their decision to leave. The note is light on grievance and heavy on culture — specifically the slow drift from "build cool things" to "ship metric-moving things". The essay landed on the Hacker News front page and is generating the kind of internal-discussion thread Google folks have been having quietly for years.