{"id":1001865,"date":"2026-04-09T07:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001865"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:00:33","slug":"silicon-valleys-hottest-ai-metric-is-also-its-least-trusted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/silicon-valleys-hottest-ai-metric-is-also-its-least-trusted\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley\u2019s hottest AI metric is also its least trusted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The co-founder of Cluely \u2014 an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup with the motto, \u201cCheat on everything\u201d \u2014 ignited a controversy earlier this month after confessing to lying to a reporter about his company\u2019s performance on a popular Silicon Valley metric: annual recurring revenue, or ARR. <\/p>\n<p>Cluely CEO Roy Lee told a TechCrunch reporter the company\u2019s ARR doubled in one week to $7 million. Later on X, Lee said he \u201cgot a random cold call from some woman asking about numbers and told her some BS,\u201d calling it \u201cthe only blatantly dishonest thing I\u2019ve said publicly online.\u201d He added that the post would serve as \u201cmy formal retraction,\u201d adding that the actual number was $5.2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The co-founder of Cluely \u2014 an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup with the motto, \u201cCheat on everything\u201d \u2014 ignited a controversy earlier this month after confessing to lying to a reporter about his company\u2019s performance on a popular Silicon Valley metric: annual recurring revenue, or ARR. Cluely CEO Roy Lee told a TechCrunch reporter the company\u2019s ARR doubled in one week to $7 million. Later on X, Lee said he \u201cgot a random cold call from some woman asking about numbers and told her some BS,\u201d calling it \u201cthe only blatantly dishonest thing I\u2019ve said publicly online.\u201d He added that the post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}