- conflicts or gaps
- [{"founding_date": {"value": "Sources disagree: OSU/Alex Polvi bio cite December 2008 launch; DataCenterKnowledge and VentureBeat cite March 2009 public launch tied to YC W09 demo day", "source_urls": ["https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/young-company-co-founded-osu-alumni-acquired", "https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/alumni-partners/oregon-stater-awards/searchable-awards-database/alex-polvi-council-outstanding", "https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cloud/rackspace-acquires-cloudkick", "https://venturebeat.com/2009/09/14/cloudkicks-simple-cloud-management-gets-750k/"]}, "yc_founders_list_incomplete": {"value": "YC company page lists only Logan Welliver as founder (duplicated entry); does not list Alex Polvi or Dan Di Spaltro despite other primary sources naming all three co-founders", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cloudkick", "https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/young-company-co-founded-osu-alumni-acquired"]}, "employee_count_discrepancy": {"value": "YC reports team size 11; OSU reports 12 employees at acquisition (plus remote intern). Secondary aggregators (e.g. YCDB) report higher figures without primary corroboration", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cloudkick", "https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/young-company-co-founded-osu-alumni-acquired"]}, "acquisition_price_unknown": {"value": "No official purchase price disclosed; public speculation on HN/aggregators (~$15M–$30M) is unverified", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/rackspace-buys-server-management-platform-cloudkick/", "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2011750"]}, "seed_round_date_typo": {"value": "VentureBeat April 2010 funding article says $750K was raised 'back in 2008'; contemporaneous Sept 2009 article and OSU place seed in Aug–Sep 2009", "source_urls": ["https://venturebeat.com/2010/04/28/cloudkick-funding/", "https://venturebeat.com/2009/09/14/cloudkicks-simple-cloud-management-gets-750k/", "https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/young-company-co-founded-osu-alumni-acquired"]}, "standalone_product_longevity": {"value": "At acquisition Rackspace FAQ said Cloudkick would remain standalone multi-cloud product; long-term outcome was absorption into Rackspace Cloud Monitoring bundled with Rackspace cloud accounts", "source_urls": ["https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cloud/rackspace-acquires-cloudkick", "https://www.rackspace.com/en-gb/newsroom/rackspace-launches-cloud-monitoring-help-companies-proactively-track-health-cloud-web-infrastructure-hosted-anywhere"]}, "legal_entity_name": {"value": "No authoritative primary source found for formal legal entity name (e.g. Cloudkick Inc.)", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/rackspace-buys-server-management-platform-cloudkick/", "https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/young-company-co-founded-osu-alumni-acquired"]}}]
- source urls
- ["https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/alumni-partners/oregon-stater-awards/searchable-awards-database/alex-polvi-council-outstanding", "https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/young-company-co-founded-osu-alumni-acquired", "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2011750", "https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/rackspace-buys-server-management-platform-cloudkick/", "https://venturebeat.com/2009/09/14/cloudkicks-simple-cloud-management-gets-750k/", "https://venturebeat.com/2010/04/28/cloudkick-funding/", "https://venturebeat.com/business/cloudkick/", "https://venturebeat.com/entrepreneur/cloudkick-rackspace-acquisition/", "https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cloud/rackspace-acquires-cloudkick", "https://www.networkworld.com/article/712818/system-management-rackspace-boosts-cloud-offerings-with-monitoring-service.html", "https://www.rackspace.com/en-gb/newsroom/rackspace-launches-cloud-monitoring-help-companies-proactively-track-health-cloud-web-infrastructure-hosted-anywhere", "https://www.ycdb.co/batch/w09", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cloudkick"]