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Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a series of Company Dispatches, in which a member of Colossus or Positive Sum temporarily embeds with a company—either as an employee, investor, or informal observer—and reports back on their impressions.

编辑注：这是公司快报系列的第一篇，其中Colossus或Positive Sum的成员暂时与一家公司嵌入——作为员工、投资者或非正式观察者——并反馈他们的印象。

I was first introduced to the Cursor team through a former colleague who said the company was looking to meet people with “interesting perspectives on marketing.” We had a 30-minute chat followed by an invitation to drop by Cursor’s San Francisco headquarters, which rolled into a handful of informal (I thought) conversations with team members. I followed up with some reflections from my conversations and went about my week.

我第一次接触 Cursor 团队是通过一位前同事，他说公司希望结识对市场营销有“有趣观点”的人。我们进行了30分钟的聊天，随后受邀参观Cursor位于旧金山的总部，这又引发了与团队成员的几次非正式（我认为是）对话。我跟进了一些我对谈话的反思，并继续我的一周。

The next thing I knew, I was getting texts from former colleagues about the Cursor team “backchanneling” me about a paid role to which I was not aware of having applied. This was somewhat irritating but also flattering, and in what I’ve now learned is typical Cursor fashion, within two weeks I had a Cursor laptop at my Seattle doorstep, an invitation to Slack in my inbox, and another trip to HQ planned to officially begin my work with the team. The scope and term of my role was left intentionally fuzzy, but it rounded to “help Cursor tell its story” through my own idiosyncratic impressions.

接下来我知道的是，我收到了前同事的短信，关于Cursor团队“私下联系”我，讨论一个我并不知道自己申请的有偿职位。这有点令人恼火，但也令人感到受宠若惊，而在我现在了解到的典型Cursor风格中，两周内我在西雅图的门口收到了Cursor的笔记本电脑，收到了Slack的邀请，计划再次前往总部正式开始与团队的工作。我的角色的范围和期限故意模糊，但它归结为“通过我自己独特的印象帮助Cursor讲述它的故事”。

With the support of my team at Colossus and Positive Sum, I took on the project for two reasons. Number one, after visiting Cursor’s office and spending more time with the team, I felt like I had to. I worked at Stripe and Figma in each company’s early days and felt a versi...