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Why Cursor needs this now
Answer "Why does Cursor's usage-based pricing make legacy ERP assumptions a poor fit?" Use one lesson detail to support it.
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Cursor's revenue grew faster than almost any software company in history and it grew on a consumption model. That combination is precisely what legacy finance stacks handle worst.
Anysphere (Cursor) reached multi-billion ARR at record speed selling an AI coding product priced largely on usage. Volume and complexity outran the finance infrastructure, which is the classic moment a company makes its first dedicated finance-systems hire.