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Nailing 'Why Cursor' and 'Why sales'
Rebuild the sequence in "Nailing 'Why Cursor' and 'Why sales'" from memory, ending with the check that proves the outcome.
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"I love AI and the space is exciting" dies on the first follow-up and every candidate says a version of it. A real why-Cursor names something specific you've seen in the product, belief in the mission to automate coding and why this early builder seat appeals to you now.
The recruiter screen and the values round both probe this, so build an answer with depth behind the opener. The test is whether you keep going when they ask "why us and not Copilot?" or "why sales and not something else?"
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That answer opens doors the interviewer can walk through
That answer opens doors the interviewer can walk through. "Which project?" "How would you cold-call an engineer who already uses it?" "What's broken about an outbound playbook you'd want to fix?" You can answer all of them because each clause is built from something true.