a16z's Martin Casado, Matt Bornstein, and Sarah Wang on the Cursor story: In 2023, four MIT dropouts released a fork of Microsoft's code editor. Microsoft owned VS Code, GitHub, the OpenAI weights, and had the best enterprise distribution in software history. And despite this, Cursor won. A rotating cast of competitors were supposed to crush Cursor. The company blew past every forecast it gave its investors. In this episode, Martin, Matt, and Sarah break down how it happened: why Cursor…