OpenAI had just 300 employees when it launched ChatGPT. Within a year, it doubled in size, causing chaos and high turnover for employees.

Anysphere’s 60-person team grew Cursor to $200M revenue, 14K+ business users, and a near $10B valuation — attracting top investors and expanding fast.

OpenAi was founded in December 2015 by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, and John Schulman. OpenAI released an early demo of ChatGPT in November 2022.