LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders

# Summary LARP is a satirical tool that exposes how some startups artificially inflate revenue figures through circular financial arrangements with peer companies—where founders wire money to each other in loops, with each transaction counted as revenue for both parties, resulting in zero net cash movement. The article highlights that while such deals are technically legal and publicly disclosed (similar to patterns seen in the AI industry), they represent a concerning trend of inflating metrics without genuine business value, comparable to 1990s dot-com vendor financing schemes.