Cursor Acquired for $60BN by xAI | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets | Did Anthropic Just Kill Figma, Adobe and Canva

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Apr 23, 2026

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Jason Lemkin is one of the leading SaaS investors of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Algolia, Talkdesk, Owner, RevenueCat, Saleloft and more.

Rory O’Driscoll is a General Partner @ Scale where he has led investments in category leaders such as Bill.com (BILL), Box (BOX), DocuSign (DOCU), and WalkMe (WKME), among others.

In Today's Episode We Discuss:
  • Cursor Acquired for $60B?! Breaking down the mind-blowing deal with xAI/SpaceX

  • Why Cursor and Elon Musk actually make perfect sense

  • Who Won the Deal?

  • Venture Payday: What this means for the investors and the "lock-up" reality for the founders

  • SpaceX as an AI Lab

  • The AI Advantage: Why high-price stocks are the ultimate weapon for massive acquisitions

  • The $100 Billion Prediction

  • End of an Era: Tim Cook steps down at Apple

  • Why Netflix, Canva, and Adobe should be terrified of YouTube and AI

  • Anthropic Hits $1 Trillion

  • Claude Design vs Figma

  • Rippling's God-Mode Growth

  • Salesforce Goes Headless: Marc Benioff's genius move to survive the AI agent revolution

  • The "Agent Fabric": The next trillion-dollar battleground for the enterprise

  • Cerebras IPO 2.0

  • Jensen Huang vs The Podcasters: Reacting to Nvidia interview.

  • London vs The Valley

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