{"id":1015642,"date":"2026-06-19T09:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015642"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:55:58","slug":"meet-michael-truell-the-25-year-old-ceo-who-sold-his-ai-coding-startup-to-spacex-for-60-bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/19\/meet-michael-truell-the-25-year-old-ceo-who-sold-his-ai-coding-startup-to-spacex-for-60-bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Michael Truell: The 25-year-old CEO who sold his AI coding startup to SpaceX for $60 Bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of its landmark IPO, SpaceX declared a new addition to its acquisitions \u2013 a $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor, a vibe coding platform that has been making waves in the industry. Being in the news cycle previously for taking on the biggies of the AI industry, with Indian-origin co-founder Aman Sanger gaining popularity, Cursor will now be part of SpaceX\u2019s xAI division, potentially helping Grok AI survive the competition in an enterprise-centric world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of its landmark IPO, SpaceX declared a new addition to its acquisitions \u2013 a $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor, a vibe coding platform that has been making waves in the industry. Being in the news cycle previously for taking on the biggies of the AI industry, with Indian-origin co-founder Aman Sanger gaining popularity, Cursor will now be part of SpaceX\u2019s xAI division, potentially helping Grok AI survive the competition in an enterprise-centric world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015643,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015642\/revisions\/1015643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}