Grok Bot went from zero to launch in 7 weeks: ex-Cursor growth lead Roman Ugarte tells the story
lennysan · x · 2026-09-14
On Lenny's Podcast, Roman Ugarte—who led growth at Cursor from 15 to 1,000+ employees before its acquisition—recounts incubating Grok Bot: an isolated small team shipped a working internal product in 4 weeks and launched publicly 3 weeks later. Key topics: building from scratch instead of inside Cursor, personally onboarding 300 first users, the two early product decisions behind its success, a "colleague-pilled" product philosophy, and his take on moats. Full 1h22m episode with transcript.
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