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airstriketoday at 12:35 AM1 replyview on HN

Whoever thinks the talent pool is this limited that it requires offering Cursor of all places $60B is pattern-matching so hard they might as well be a quilt.


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theahuratoday at 4:09 AM

hi, im the quilt.

Note that Meta paid ~16b for Alexandr Wang, and Google paid ~3b for the windsurf executive team. You are making a category error -- the talent pool isn't "ML researcher" it's "competent leader"

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