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Companies that grew through PLG but never converted into enterprise businesses mostly failed, according to research Cursor's co-founders did. Listen

Brian said Cursor's co-founders argued that anything easily acquired is easily lost, and that building an enduring company requires marrying PLG with sticky enterprise sales. He said they researched companies that grew in PLG but never made the enterprise conversion and most of them failed.

“Companies that grew up in PLG but never made the conversion into enterprise, most of them, most of them failed.”

From Why Sales Execution Wins in an AI-First World with Brian McCarthy, President of Global Revenue and Field Operations at Cursor.