- conflicts or gaps
- [{"founder_discrepancy": {"value": "Tim Sullivan widely cited as co-founder in 2007–2008 press but absent from YC/Altss founder listings (only Alexander Wissner-Gross listed)", "source_urls": ["https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/11/16/widget-helps-web-sites-calculate-visitors-carbon-dioxide-emissions/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/co2stats", "https://altss.com/companies/yc/co2stats"]}, "funding_total_unclear": {"value": "YCDB shows $0.1M while VentureBeat reports separate angel round under $1M; total raised and valuation not publicly reconciled", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycdb.co/company/co2stats", "https://venturebeat.com/enterprise/web-site-carbon-tracker-co2stats-raises-angel-funding/"]}, "acquirer_undisclosed": {"value": "Acquisition in Dec 2016 confirmed by YC/YCDB but buyer identity, price, and terms not found in public sources", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/co2stats", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/co2stats"]}, "employee_count_unknown": {"value": "No authoritative headcount or LinkedIn-era team size published", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/co2stats", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/co2stats"]}, "google_search_co2_controversy_2009": {"value": "Sunday Times (UK) attributed 7g CO2 per Google search and tea-kettle analogy to Wissner-Gross; he denied originating those figures and said research was general web usage, not Google-specific; Google disputed as ~0.2g/search; critics flagged potential conflict of interest because Wissner-Gross ran CO2Stats selling green certification/offsets", "source_urls": ["https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientist-co2-report-didnt-name-google/", "https://techcrunch.com/2009/01/12/revealed-the-times-made-up-that-stuff-about-google-and-the-tea-kettles/", "https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/1/13/fellow-caught-up-in-media-controversy/", "https://www.loosewireblog.com/2009/01/the-conflict-of-interest-of-co2.html", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wissner-Gross"]}, "customer_count_variance": {"value": "Early customer/site counts vary by source and date (251 sites Oct 2007; 2,500+ Aug 2008; 2,700 cited same period)", "source_urls": ["https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/11/16/widget-helps-web-sites-calculate-visitors-carbon-dioxide-emissions/", "https://techcrunch.com/2008/08/14/y-combinators-demo-day-summer-2008/", "https://venturebeat.com/business/y-combinator-demo-day-co2stats-posterous-and-others-show-their-stuff/"]}}]
- source urls
- ["https://altss.com/companies/yc/co2stats", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wissner-Gross", "https://techcrunch.com/2008/08/14/co2stats-compensates-for-your-sites-pollution/", "https://techcrunch.com/2008/08/14/y-combinators-demo-day-summer-2008/", "https://techcrunch.com/2008/09/02/greenseng-a-green-search-engine-that-actually-conserves-energy/", "https://techcrunch.com/2009/01/12/revealed-the-times-made-up-that-stuff-about-google-and-the-tea-kettles/", "https://venturebeat.com/business/y-combinator-demo-day-co2stats-posterous-and-others-show-their-stuff/", "https://venturebeat.com/enterprise/web-site-carbon-tracker-co2stats-raises-angel-funding/", "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientist-co2-report-didnt-name-google/", "https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/11/16/widget-helps-web-sites-calculate-visitors-carbon-dioxide-emissions/", "https://www.loosewireblog.com/2009/01/the-conflict-of-interest-of-co2.html", "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/3314491/Students-try-to-make-internet-carbon-neutral.html", "https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/1/13/fellow-caught-up-in-media-controversy/", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/co2stats", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/co2stats"]