How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups

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Last month, Scott Stevenson, co-founder and CEO of the legal AI startup Spellbook, took to X in an effort to expose what he called a “ huge scam ” among AI startups: inflation of the revenue figures that they announce publicly. “The reason many AI startups are crushing revenue records is because they are using a dishonest metric. The biggest funds in the world are supporting this and misleading journalists for PR coverage,” he wrote in his tweet. Stevenson isn’t the first to claim that annual

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How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups https://techcrunch.com - 22.05.2026 13:40