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Ben Lang on Cursor Popups
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Balaji Srinivasan hosts Ben Lang from Cursor to discuss Cafe Cursor popups and how digital communities are manifesting in physical spaces. They explore the logistics of hosting popups, the concept of Society as a Service, and how to incentivize power users to connect in the real world. If these ideas interest you, we're building startup societies at Network School. You can apply online at https://ns.com. OUTLINE 0:21 Story of Cursor popups 3:04 Users want to connect with each other 4:56 Convincing cafes to host popups 7:39 Popups are the new startups 9:02 From popups to permanents 11:51 Society-as-a-Service 13:22 Inviting the top 1% of users REFERENCES - The Network State book: https://www.amazon.com/Network-State-How-Start-Country-ebook/dp/B09VPKZR3G/ - Avlok Kohli, CEO of AngelList, at the Network State Conference: https://youtu.be/XrkVVeZaGv4?si=VIeq2WUqvnTd2LBH - Popups are the new startups: https://balajis.com/p/popups-are-the-new-startups - Cursor: https://cursor.com/ - Cursor Community: https://cursor.com/community - The first Cafe Cursor popup: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7373738971866030080/ - Cafe Cursor experience: https://b17news.com/i-went-to-cursors-new-york-cafe-i-saw-coding-bros-custom-merch-and-a-potential-job-interview/ - Founders Café from AngelList: https://x.com/avlok/status/1968061927898353814 - Cursor Tab Button: https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1n3akdr/i_received_cursor_tab_button/ SOCIALS https://x.com/benln https://x.com/ns https://ns.com/
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The Birth of Cursor Pop-Ups
Ben discusses the inception and growth of Cursor's innovative pop-up events.
"Ben, thank you for coming on the Never See Podcast. So, um, you are with, uh, Cursor and you're organizing the Cursor pop-ups, which have been pretty cool. You want to tell us a little about that? Tel..."
From Popup to Permanent Meetups
Exploring the evolution and logistics of hosting cursor community events.
"team to come by and have kind of you know easy access to like getting feedback and and and and meeting more of our users and customers. >> Yeah. Actually you know we have a I have a term for that. It'..."
Neighborhood Cafes as Event Spaces
Exploring the unique blend of local cafes and event pop-ups, and their impact on community engagement.
"then people walking in would say, "What's going on?" "Oh, it's a private event. Oh, that sucks. I can't get my cup of coffee today." And so, so there's some cost to their locals, so not all of them wa..."
The Emergence of SAS: Society as a Service
Exploring the innovative concept of combining physical community events with subscription services in the world of startups.
"well, right? Then I'll show you a bunch of others that are in. So you guys obviously are in AI. Uh here's Angelist founders cafe. So um this is actually started off, you know, I I'd written some essay..."
Inviting the Elite: User Engagement
This segment explores how inviting top users fosters community and excitement among participants.
"right, and you have let's say there's a thousand people who are willing to add another whatever bucks a month for that and you just break even on these cafes. Yeah. Frankly actually Angelist just subs..."
Emacs Tips and Power User Tricks
A passionate discussion on sharing productivity tips among Emacs users and fostering community knowledge.
"was and am an Emacs power user, right? And so I just get all the I get the various AI things to work because you can have them with the, you know, my just my fingers are bound to Emacs. I love cursor...."
Join the Cursor Community
This segment discusses upcoming Cursor events and invites viewers to engage with the community.
"it, but there they used to have some sort of display bar above the um you know 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0. >> Oh yeah. Yeah. >> I forgot what it was called. And I but I and it was programmable, but I actuall..."