India, Nov. 20 -- An Indian man listed himself as the CEO of Anysphere on LinkedIn and managed to gaslight even financial data provider PitchBook, underscoring how not everything you see on the internet is true.

Ashish Bagade is a Pune-based man who has put himself down as the chief executive officer of Anysphere, the $29 billion company behind AI coding assistant Cursor.

His blatant act of misdirection was first noticed by venture capitalist Zach DeWitt, who posted about it on the social media platform X. "A random guy (Ashish Bagade) from India lists himself as Co-CEO of Cursor (Anysphere) on LinkedIn," DeWitt pointed out, sharing a screenshot of Bagade's LinkedIn profile.

The real CEO of Anysphere is Michael Truell. Truell launched ...