How I Built This
Founder stories from Guy Raz. AI startup episodes are increasingly common.
3 episodes curated
Episodes
Cursor: Building the AI Code Editor
The founders of Cursor tell Guy Raz how they built the most popular AI-native code editor from scratch — forking VS Code, raising $400M, and competing against GitHub Copilot. How a small team created a product developers actually switched to.
Perplexity: Reinventing Search with AI
Aravind Srinivas shares how Perplexity went from a Stanford research project to a $9B AI search company. The technical breakthrough of citation-backed AI answers, the growth strategy that reached 40M users, and why Google is worried.
Jasper AI: From Side Project to $1.5B AI Writing Tool
Dave Rogenmoser tells the story of building Jasper — from a small marketing tool to a $1.5B enterprise AI writing platform. The pivots, the near-death moments when ChatGPT launched, and how they survived by going enterprise.