Michael Truell is an American technology entrepreneur and, as of late 2025, one of the world's youngest self-made billionaires at age 25. Born in a tech-savvy household, he was coding complex projects by middle school.

Truell attended New York City's Horace Mann School, where he was a classmate of fellow billionaire Aman Sanger. He later enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2018. In 2022, he and his co-founders turned down lucrative Big Tech job offers to launch their own AI startup, Anysphere.

• Core Company: Anysphere (the developer of Cursor).
• Age Milestone: Became a billionaire at 25 following a record-breaking funding round.
• Education: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from MIT.

Michael Truell’s career is defined by the explosive growth of Cursor, the AI code editor he co-founded in 2022. Under his leadership as CEO, Cursor became the fastest-growing SaaS company in history, reaching $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in just 12 months.

In November 2025, he announced that Cursor had raised $2.3 billion at a staggering $29.3 billion valuation. His structural achievement is tied to the bold decision to 'fork' Microsoft's VS Code to create an AI-native environment that now serves developers at 50,000 enterprises, including Nvidia and Uber.

• Strategic Milestone: Reached over $1 billion in annualized revenue by early 2026.
• Innovation: Developed 'Agent Mode' and 'Composer,' features that allow AI to build entire software architectures autonomously.