- conflicts or gaps
- [{"value": [{"gap": "Headquarters location conflict: YC lists London, UK; YCDB lists Sunnyvale, California, US", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goscale", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/goscale"]}, {"gap": "Founding year conflict: YC lists founded 2011; loot-drop and reforgers list 2012", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goscale", "https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/1571-goscale", "https://reforgers.com/startups/goscale"]}, {"gap": "Shutdown year conflict: goscale.com and founder LinkedIn say stopped 2014; loot-drop lists end year 2015", "source_urls": ["https://goscale.com/", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinhayhurst", "https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/1571-goscale"]}, {"gap": "Employee count conflict: YC reports team size 2; YCDB reports 5 employees", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goscale", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/goscale"]}, {"gap": "Total funding amount not publicly disclosed; no Crunchbase or SEC filing found", "source_urls": ["https://reforgers.com/startups/goscale"]}, {"gap": "Name collision: unrelated active UK company Goscale.io (advertising/growth marketing, founded 2018) and Goscale Ltd (UK, incorporated 2025) share similar branding but are not the YC S12 startup", "source_urls": ["https://goscale.io/", "https://uk.linkedin.com/company/goscale-io", "https://open.endole.co.uk/insight/company/16310006-goscale-ltd"]}, {"gap": "loot-drop $2.5M cash-burn figure is AI-assisted and unverified; site disclaimer warns of possible inaccuracies", "source_urls": ["https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/1571-goscale"]}, {"gap": "No verified post-mortem from James Cunningham found in primary sources reviewed", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goscale", "https://goscale.com/"]}], "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goscale", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/goscale", "https://goscale.com/", "https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/1571-goscale", "https://goscale.io/"]}]
- source urls
- ["https://goscale.com/", "https://goscale.io/", "https://open.endole.co.uk/insight/company/16310006-goscale-ltd", "https://reforgers.com/startups/goscale", "https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/26/y-combinator-debuts-yc-vc-to-replace-the-start-fund-includes-yuri-milner-andreessen-horowitz/", "https://uk.linkedin.com/company/goscale-io", "https://www.buzzsprout.com/1426819/7048273-the-story-of-ycombinator-s-goscale-heroku-for-php-and-why-it-failed-with-co-founder-colin-hayhurst", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinhayhurst", "https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/1571-goscale", "https://www.technologyreview.com/2012/02/23/187430/the-startup-whisperer/", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/goscale", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goscale"]