Interview with Adam Weinstein, Co-founder & CEO at Cursor

In this interview, Adam Weinstein, Co-founder & CEO at Cursor discusses the challenge with fragmented data and AI’s potential in the times to come. Prior to Cursor, Adam was the head of LinkedIn’s developer platform and the head of data and analytics at Bright (an AI-powered recruiting platform acquired by LinkedIn for $130M). Adam’s passion for data has been ever since the start of his career as part of the first business intelligence team at ExactTarget (later acquired by Salesforce for $2.5B). Today this has seen him establish the tech start-up with brands like Apple, Slack, Atlassian and more.

Question : Tell us about your product/business and your specific role?

Answer From Adam Weinstein : I am the co-founder of Cursor, a data search and analytics hub, and have been entrenched in the data space for the past decade. I was the first BI hire at ExactTarget, which was acquired by Salesforce for $2.5B in 2013 (now called Salesforce Marketing Cloud), and later led analytics at Bright, an AI-powered recruiting platform acquired by LinkedIn for $130M. From there, I helped lead analytics at LinkedIn, where I was responsible for building out LinkedIn China. It was during this process that I came up with the idea for what would become Cursor.

In short, I wanted to create a solution that would make answers to data questions easier to find. Cursor takes all of a company’s data assets and makes them searchable and actionable. It’s as accessible to a company’s data analyst as it is to senior executives (CEOs,VPs, etc.).

Question : What’s the one industry, sector or role that your technology is most relevant to?

Answer From Adam Weinstein : We designed Cursor to be relevant to any individual at a data-driven organization, intentionally making it vertically agnostic. We have teams at industry-leading organizations, including Apple, Atlassian, and Slack, Terminix, Ticketmaster, and beyond that have already adopted the platform.

Question : What are some of the common challenges your customers approach you with?

Answer From Adam Weinstein : Our customers say they’re in need of a solution that allows them to search across the entire breadth of their data and analytical assets as they’re currently housed in disparate locations (cloud, personal machines, etc.)

They’re also looking for something that’s easy to deploy and doesn’t require extensive internal resources or requirements.

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