- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"field": "founded_year", "conflict": "2014 (YC, YCDB, Dave Yen LinkedIn) vs 2015 (Reforgers, some secondary databases)", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roomblocker", "https://reforgers.com/startups/roomblocker"]}, {"field": "total_funding_usd", "conflict": "$120K (Gaebler/YCDB) vs $245K (LinkedIn company snapshot on Dave Yen profile) vs Unknown (Reforgers)", "source_urls": ["https://www.gaebler.com/Funded-Company-5CDAF9C0-0951-426E-B16C-55C1A1D9DCFB-Roomblocker", "https://linkedin.com/in/davecyen", "https://reforgers.com/startups/roomblocker"]}, {"field": "employees", "conflict": "Team size 2 (YC, Reforgers) vs 5 employees (YCDB estimate)", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roomblocker", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/roomblocker"]}, {"field": "category", "conflict": "B2B/Marketplace/Travel (YC) vs Consumer (YCDB, Reforgers)", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roomblocker", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/roomblocker", "https://reforgers.com/startups/roomblocker"]}, {"field": "shutdown_date", "conflict": "Jul 2017 (Dave Yen CEO tenure end) vs 2018 end year (Loot-drop secondary case study) vs undated official closure announcement (none found)", "source_urls": ["https://linkedin.com/in/davecyen", "https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/1512-roomblocker", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roomblocker"]}, {"field": "cash_burned", "conflict": "Loot-drop reports $5.0M total cash burned; no corroborating primary filing or investor disclosure found", "source_urls": ["https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/1512-roomblocker"]}, {"field": "founder_profiles_stale", "conflict": "Michael Wang LinkedIn lists Roomblocker co-founder role as Present; YC lists company Inactive and founders as Former", "source_urls": ["https://linkedin.com/in/mwang1", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roomblocker"]}, {"field": "company_status_third_party", "conflict": "Gaebler lists status Private & Independent (stale); YC/YCDB/Reforgers list inactive/dead/closed", "source_urls": ["https://www.gaebler.com/Funded-Company-5CDAF9C0-0951-426E-B16C-55C1A1D9DCFB-Roomblocker", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roomblocker", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/roomblocker"]}, {"field": "formal_closure_announcement", "gap": "No primary-source shutdown blog post, press release, or SEC/acquisition filing identified", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roomblocker", "https://reforgers.com/startups/roomblocker"]}, {"field": "product_ship_status", "gap": "Guest payment feature was announced as planned in Jul 2015; no source confirms it launched", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/06/roomblocker-yc-s15-is-modernizing-group-hotel-reservations/"]}]]
- source urls
- ["http://roomblocker.com", "https://linkedin.com/in/davecyen", "https://linkedin.com/in/mwang1", "https://reforgers.com/startups/roomblocker", "https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/06/roomblocker-yc-s15-is-modernizing-group-hotel-reservations/", "https://www.gaebler.com/Funded-Company-5CDAF9C0-0951-426E-B16C-55C1A1D9DCFB-Roomblocker", "https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/1512-roomblocker", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/roomblocker", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/roomblocker-s15-makes-booking-hotels-for-groups-and-events-a-snap", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roomblocker"]