{"id":985134,"date":"2026-01-13T11:35:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985134"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:05:26","slug":"30-billion-ai-startups-lead-engineer-explains-reason-behind-having-a-small-team-the-process-to-hire-people-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/13\/30-billion-ai-startups-lead-engineer-explains-reason-behind-having-a-small-team-the-process-to-hire-people-was\/","title":{"rendered":"$30 billion AI startup\u2019s lead engineer explains reason behind having a small team: The process to hire people was\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cursor is maintaining a lean workforce to prioritise speed and talent density. In a recent episode of the \u201cLangChain\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was because the process to hiring people was very slow and the bar was extremely, extremely high,\u201d Ginsberg stated during the podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cursor is maintaining a lean workforce to prioritise speed and talent density. In a recent episode of the \u201cLangChain\u201d 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. \u201cThat was because the process to hiring people was very slow and the bar was extremely, extremely high,\u201d Ginsberg stated during the podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985134","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}