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3 hours ago

Let's talk about ARR | Fortune

It's likely safe to say-creative accounting's been around for as long as accounting itself. In 1494, for example, mathematician and 'father of modern accounting' Luca Pacioli wrote of Venetian merchants willfully rendering their ledgers illegible. In the Gilded Age, inflating assets and understating liabilities was standard practice across a booming system. And who can forget the "channel stuffing" of the 2000s?
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fromFortune
3 days ago

'There's so much pressure to be the company that went from zero to $100 million in X days': Inside the sketchy world of ARR and inflated AI startup accounting | Fortune

In less than three years, Midjourney's ARR went from zero to $200 million. In 20 months, ElevenLabs, a voice AI startup, saw its ARR soar from zero to near $100 million. In three months, vibe coding darling Lovable went from zero to $17 million in ARR, this summer hitting $100 million in ARR. In its first six months, Decagon hit "seven figures" in ARR, the company reported.
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fromMarTech
2 weeks ago

Designing the GTM model for marketing's revenue era | MarTech

Marketing must replace MQL-focused measurement with meeting creation, pipeline conversion, and ARR-driven metrics, requiring cultural and operational alignment across the revenue team.
fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

Perplexity reportedly raised $200M at $20B valuation | TechCrunch

Perplexity, the AI-powered search startup that compete with Google by providing conversational answers to user queries, has secured $200 million in new capital at a $20 billion valuation, The Information reported. The fresh funding comes just two months after the company raised $100 million at an $18 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg's July report. Since its founding three years ago, the rapidly growing AI company has raised $1.5 billion in total funding, according to PitchBook data.
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fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Investors are loving Lovable | TechCrunch

Investors are clambering to get onto Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable's cap table, making unsolicited offers of investment that value the company at more than $4 billion, reports Financial Times. Lovable CEO Anton Osika isn't currently engaging with the flurry of inbound, the Times says, which comes a few weeks after the startup announced a $200 million round at a $1.8 billion valuation in a deal led by Accel.
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