SpaceX just agreed to buy Cursor for $60 billion. Everyone is talking about the product, the models, the valuation. I’m interested in the human side of this AI story. Who built the team behind one of the fastest-growing software companies in history, and how do they think about talent at the frontier of AI? For the first episode of my new podcast, Below the Surface, I sat down with @wardadamp, @Cursor 's Head of Talent, to find out. Before Cursor, Adam helped scale Facebook through its IPO, ran global recruiting at Pinterest from 200 to 2000+ people, and built Growth by Design Talent, the advisory firm behind OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, Notion, and Figma … until Cursor acquired it last year. We talked about what hiring looks like when the market is moving this fast, how Cursor does it differently, and what it actually takes to build a high-performance team right now. One of my biggest takeaways: the companies that win in AI won’t just have better models. They’ll have better systems for finding, assessing, and enabling exceptional people. Watch the full episode here: Or subscribe wherever you get podcasts: 🎧 🎤