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The FDE Bubble: Silicon Valley’s Most Expensive Game Of Pretend
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Airrived CEO Anurag Gurtu argues enterprise AI vendors use forward deployed engineers to disguise professional services as scalable software.
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- Enterprise AI
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- Crunchbase News · VC INVESTMENT
- Published by source
- 19 October 2026
- Collected by OneBench
- 20 Oct 2026, 03:02 UK
- Original headline
- The FDE Bubble: Silicon Valley’s Most Expensive Game Of Pretend ↗
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Enterprise AI companies relying on armies of forward deployed engineers are disguising labor-intensive services as scalable software, inflating recurring revenue and valuations while falling short…
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