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This is a really well written article and contains references to back up the claims made. This part was mind blowing though: > Cursor sends 100% of their reve
by candiddevmike 1y ago
This is a really well written article and contains references to back up the claims made. This part was mind blowing though:
> Cursor sends 100% of their revenue to Anthropic, who then takes that money and puts it into building out Claude Code, a competitor to Cursor. Cursor is Anthropic's largest customer. Cursor is deeply unprofitable, and was that way even before Anthropic chose to add "Service Tiers," jacking up the prices for enterprise apps like Cursor.
- pimeys 1y agoInteresting to see what will happen if Cursor goes down...
- boron1006 1y agoI don’t think it’s necessarily bad to be unprofitable but definitely weird to be sending 100% of your revenue to what is essentially your main competitor
- dmonitor 1y agoIt's even weirder from Anthropic's standpoint. Your #1 customer is buying all your product to resell it at loss.
- joenot443 1y agoWhat are the odds that Microsoft acquires Cursor eventually, folding those users into a VS Code Premium of sorts?
- rcarmo 1y agoMicrosoft has an arguably better and more generally useful solution in GitHub Copilot.