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ARR DOESN'T MEAN WHAT IT USED TO

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Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

Five growth stage investors describe how AI era reporting bent the standard metrics, with ARR now often meaning annualized run rate, contracted ARR mixing signed bookings with unproven capacity, and NRR inflated by converting small pilots into contracts.