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Cluely's CEO, Roy Lee, says he lied about its $7M annual recurring revenue in 2025 and that it “is the only blatantly dishonest thing I've said publicly online”

The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely co-founder and CEO Roy Lee shared with TechCrunch last summer was a lie …

TechCrunch Julie Bort

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  • @im_roy_lee Roy on x
    eh kinda, here's our stripes from june 2025 got a random cold call from some woman asking about numbers and told her some bs, did not expect an article about it here's what we were doing at the time: > consumer arr 2.7m, run rate 3.8m > enterprise arr 2.5m, run rate 2.5m > [image…
  • @sporadica @sporadica on x
    roy lee just being a pathological liar is the least surprising thing i've learned on the Internet today [image]
  • @mil0theminer Milo Smith on x
    He's selectively trying to show revenue from 9 months ago, if the revenue was so good back then why did the series B fail?
  • @duderichy @duderichy on x
    people who lie about big things tend to lie about other big things don't trust liars
  • @willmanidis Will Manidis on x
    @im_roy_lee it's genuinely crazy tech has so isolated itself from regulatory forces that you can just admit to securities violations on the internet
  • @mattturck Matt Turck on x
    Breaking: CEO of an app to cheat on everything cheated
  • @hypervisible.blacksky.app @hypervisible.blacksky.app on bluesky
    I can't believe the “cheat-on-everything” guy would do this.
  • @harrymccracken.com Harry McCracken on bluesky
    God, no, not the Cluely guy. techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/c...
  • r/technology r on reddit
    Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year
  • r/asianamercianytsnark r on reddit
    Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year