- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"field": "founding_date", "conflict": "Sources disagree: Wikipedia says March 2012; AllThingsD (Apr 2012) says 'founded just last summer' (~2011); CB Insights says 2012; some tertiary sources say 2010.", "source_urls": ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_(search_engine)", "https://allthingsd.com/20120425/people-search-engine-ark-raises-biggest-y-combinator-seed-round-in-memory/", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/arkcom"]}, {"field": "founders", "conflict": "Wikipedia and March 2012 TechCrunch name only Riley and Liu; Y Combinator and Yiming Liu's personal site also list Jonas Templestein as co-founder.", "source_urls": ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_(search_engine)", "https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/25/ark-people-search/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ark", "https://blog.yimingliu.com/about/"]}, {"field": "employee_count", "conflict": "Reported as 2 (Mar 2012), 16 (Apr 2012), and 11 (YC profile; date unspecified).", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/25/ark-people-search/", "https://allthingsd.com/20120425/people-search-engine-ark-raises-biggest-y-combinator-seed-round-in-memory/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ark"]}, {"field": "total_funding", "conflict": "CB Insights reports $4.22M total; adding disclosed $250k seed plus $4.2M seed implies ~$4.45M.", "source_urls": ["https://www.cbinsights.com/company/arkcom", "https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/25/ark-people-search/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/ark-yc-w12-raises-42m-from-a16z-charles-river"]}, {"field": "facebook_acquisition_talks", "gap": "Some secondary sources claim Ark declined Facebook acquisition discussions; no primary contemporaneous press source found in this research pass.", "source_urls": []}, {"field": "facebook_api_cutoff_date", "gap": "TechCrunch (Sep 2013) states Facebook shut off access but does not give an exact date.", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/13/ark-is-like-a-rapportive-mobile-app/"]}, {"field": "shutdown_announcement", "gap": "July 2015 shutdown date comes from CB Insights only; no primary company blog or press release found.", "source_urls": ["https://www.cbinsights.com/company/arkcom"]}, {"field": "disrupt_battlefield_outcome", "gap": "Ark was a Disrupt NYC 2012 Battlefield finalist; winner of that event is not documented in sources reviewed here.", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/22/the-final-six-disrupt-nyc-startups-ark-babelverse-gtar-open-garden-sunglass-uberconference/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_(search_engine)"]}]]
- source urls
- ["https://allthingsd.com/20120425/people-search-engine-ark-raises-biggest-y-combinator-seed-round-in-memory/", "https://blog.yimingliu.com/about/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_(search_engine)", "https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/25/ark-people-search/", "https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/25/ark-seed-round/", "https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/22/the-final-six-disrupt-nyc-startups-ark-babelverse-gtar-open-garden-sunglass-uberconference/", "https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/13/ark-is-like-a-rapportive-mobile-app/", "https://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-monzo-cofounder-in-talks-to-raise-funds-for-new-ai-startup-2024-2", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/arkcom", "https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/yiming-liu", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/ark-yc-w12-launches-people-search-done-right", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/ark-yc-w12-launches-rapportive-meets-mailbox-email-app-in-pivot-to-marketing-intelligence", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/ark-yc-w12-raises-42m-from-a16z-charles-river", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ark"]