$30 billion AI startup’s lead engineer explains reason behind having a small team: The process to hire people was…

Cursor is maintaining a lean workforce to prioritise speed and talent density. In a recent episode of the “LangChain” podcast, Jason Ginsberg, lead engineer at the $30 billion AI coding startup, revealed that the company had approximately 20 employees at the start of 2025. This small scale is a deliberate result of a rigorous recruitment strategy.

“That was because the process to hiring people was very slow and the bar was extremely, extremely high,” Ginsberg stated during the podcast.