- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"issue": "Founding year inconsistent: YC and PitchBook list 2015; Tracxn and Reforgers list 2017.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polly", "https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/173500-66", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/polly/__Gc_KZnGEO_g7Tk79aGTkxAF35bXfCn2NFP1tAVCZbDc", "https://reforgers.com/startups/polly"]}, {"issue": "Total funding inconsistent: Tracxn reports $120K (YC seed); PitchBook reports $820K across cap, angel, and accelerator rounds; Reforgers lists total as unknown.", "source_urls": ["https://tracxn.com/d/companies/polly/__Gc_KZnGEO_g7Tk79aGTkxAF35bXfCn2NFP1tAVCZbDc/funding-and-investors", "https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/173500-66", "https://reforgers.com/startups/polly"]}, {"issue": "User metrics conflict: contemporaneous press (Sep–Dec 2017) cite ~20M users; founder bios later claim 40M–45M+ users/teens.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polly", "https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/20/polly-polls/", "https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/polly-is-the-latest-app-to-tap-snapchat-for-growth-1513305745"]}, {"issue": "Founder roster incomplete on Tracxn (lists only Lankage and Alexander; omits James Zhang).", "source_urls": ["https://tracxn.com/d/companies/polly/__Gc_KZnGEO_g7Tk79aGTkxAF35bXfCn2NFP1tAVCZbDc", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polly"]}, {"issue": "Name collision: unrelated companies named Polly exist (e.g., enterprise survey platform Polly.ai, mortgage-tech PollyEx); easy to conflate in databases.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polly", "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pollyex"]}, {"issue": "Reforgers lists 'The Artist Union (F.K.A Polly/Whale)' as alias; Artist Union appears to be a separate Ranidu Lankage music-platform venture (founded 2015), not verified as same legal entity.", "source_urls": ["https://reforgers.com/startups/polly", "https://raverrafting.com/artist-union-interview/2016/10/31/", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/theartistunion"]}, {"issue": "Shutdown timing: PitchBook gives 2018-03-01; YC/Tracxn/Reforgers give no exact date.", "source_urls": ["https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/173500-66", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polly", "https://reforgers.com/startups/polly"]}, {"issue": "polly.fun live status unverified in this research (site fetch timed out).", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polly"]}]]
- source urls
- ["https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/173500-66", "https://raverrafting.com/artist-union-interview/2016/10/31/", "https://reforgers.com/startups/polly", "https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/20/polly-polls/", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/polly/__Gc_KZnGEO_g7Tk79aGTkxAF35bXfCn2NFP1tAVCZbDc", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/polly/__Gc_KZnGEO_g7Tk79aGTkxAF35bXfCn2NFP1tAVCZbDc/funding-and-investors", "https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/polly-is-the-latest-app-to-tap-snapchat-for-growth-1513305745", "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pollyex", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/theartistunion", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/polly-is-a-fun-social-polling-app-for-teens-yc-s17/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polly"]