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Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year

Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year

The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely co-founder and CEO Roy Lee shared with TechCrunch last summer was a lie, Lee admitted on Thursday on X. Wrote Lee, this “is the only blatantly dishonest thing i’ve said publicly online, so this is my formal retraction.” Yet his post on X also misrepresents the backstory of how and why he told TechCrunch his ARR in the first place. Lee says in that same post that he “got a random cold call from some woman asking about numbers and told her some bs, did not expect an article about it.” But that call occurred because Cluely’s public relations representative emailed TechCrunch and offered to make Lee available for a story. On Friday, Jun 27, 2025 at 8:38 a.m., Cluely’s PR person sent an email to TechCrunch reporter Marina Temkin that said, “I’d love to arrange an interview with Roy. Whether for a deeper dive into Cluely’s next phase or a fresh angle on his vision, we’d be happy to make it happen.” Temkin agreed. The PR …

Arundhati Roy quits Berlin film festival after jury chief’s ‘unconscionable’ Gaza remarks

Arundhati Roy quits Berlin film festival after jury chief’s ‘unconscionable’ Gaza remarks

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email Booker-winning author Arundhati Roy has withdrawn from the Berlin International Film Festival after jury president Wim Wenders said filmmakers should “stay out of politics” when asked about Israel’s war on Gaza. Roy, who was due to attend a screening of a restored version of her 1989 film In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, said she was “shocked and disgusted” by remarks made during a press conference at the festival’s opening on Thursday. When a reporter asked the jury members for their views on the German government’s “support of the genocide in Gaza” and the festival’s “selective treatment of human rights” issues by speaking out about Ukraine and Iran but not Palestine, Wenders, the chair of the seven-member jury, responded that filmmakers “have to stay out of politics”. In a statement, Roy called the comments “unconscionable” and said she had decided to withdraw “with deep regret”. “To hear them say …

Gagosian Opens 14th Roy Lichtenstein Show Ahead of Whitney Retrospective

Gagosian Opens 14th Roy Lichtenstein Show Ahead of Whitney Retrospective

This spring, Gagosian will open its 14th exhibition dedicated to Roy Lichtenstein. Titled “Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes,” the exhibition draws exclusively from the Lichtenstein family collection and will feature paintings, sculpture, watercolors, and works on paper from the 1970s and ’80s. Opening March 19 at the gallery’s 541 West 24th Street space, the show lands in the middle of a frenzied run of market activity for the late Pop artist, alongside a major Whitney Museum retrospective for Lichtenstein opening later this year. Related Articles Last April, Sotheby’s announced a consignment of more than 40 works from the artist’s family, estimated above $35 million. In September, it staged a dedicated single-owner sale of more than 90 works from the Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein Collection. Then in November, as part of the house’s contemporary evening sale, it sold eight works from the collection, achieving $20.7 million and a 100 percent sell-through rate. In total, Sotheby’s sold nearly $150 million worth of art by Lichtenstein. The Gagosian show focuses on a motif that Lichtenstein would return to again …

Eanna Hardwicke on playing Roy Keane in Saipan: ‘He wasn’t afraid to p*** people off’

Eanna Hardwicke on playing Roy Keane in Saipan: ‘He wasn’t afraid to p*** people off’

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter As men of a similar age, Éanna Hardwicke and I suffer from the same minor affliction: our social media feeds are constantly clogged with clips of Roy Keane on The Overlap podcast. The former Manchester United enforcer is an inescapable pundit these days. His trademark brand of withering takedowns – all in that distinctive Cork accent – is almost tailor-made for social media impressions. Lines like, “I might smash into somebody, just to make me feel better,” delivered after a particularly poor United performance, for instance. For Hardwicke, this presented a problem. The 29-year-old actor, who hails from the same neck of the woods as Keane, was preparing to play the footballer in a new film about the infamous Saipan incident that erupted ahead of the 2002 World Cup. “I kind of had to wean myself off it,” he says of …

Policies of Denial | Sara Roy, Max Nelson

Policies of Denial | Sara Roy, Max Nelson

On November 14 the Guardian reported, on the basis of internal military documents, that the United States was “planning for the long-term division of Gaza.” Reconstruction of the devastated territory, according to the report, would begin in the Israeli-controlled half of the Strip, east of the “yellow line,” which dozens of Palestinians have been killed for crossing since a cease-fire went into effect this past October. Last month CNN reported that on November 29 an Israeli drone had killed two children, eight and ten years old, who had crossed the line to gather firewood for their paralyzed father. “Quiet is not the absence of conflict,” Sara Roy wrote on October 25 in the NYR Online. “Nor is it peace.” In her essay Roy, an associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, surveyed several of the most prominent plans for the “day after” in the Strip, among them Donald Trump’s twenty-point proposal, which was approved by the UN Security Council soon after. All of them, she concluded, “impose forms of governance that exclude …