Cursor became the fastest software company in history to hit $100M ARR.

Not sales teams, not ads, pure product love. Developers found it in 2024, used it, told everyone, and it went vertical overnight.

One guy flew from Tokyo with a Japanese book he wrote about how to use Cursor. That’s not growth, that’s fandom. Beatles energy for a code editor.

This is what real AI leverage looks like: tools that actually make people 10x more productive and spread themselves.