Zuhayeer Musa (@zuhayeer)

I took the investor table from Cursor's $60B exit, and turned it into this graphic with Claude. Some quick notes: each box represents an investor, and the scales are in 4th root (for better visibility). x-axis is money in, y-axis is money out. Each box spans the approximate range of both. The further up and left a box, the larger the ratio of outcome. The boxes try to capture some of the ambiguity on investment size / terms, and range of outcome possible. The most notable one here probably is Ali Partovi's Neo writing a pre-seed check which ~3000x’d in about 4 years. The OpenAI startup fund did quite well here themselves with a nice 500-800x. Thrive, while a bit later, made the most in absolute value, netting somewhere in the range of $7B to $11B

There’s only 4 companies in the world that make over $100B in net profit. @Microsoft, @Apple, @nvidia, and @Google. Among the below top 10, Nvidia has the highest net margin, followed by TSMC. Easy to forget how large these numbers really are, with valuations heading into trillions.