- conflicts or gaps
- [{"items": {"value": [{"type": "founded_year_conflict", "detail": "Mashable (Dec 2007) says site launched 'early last year' (2006); Weiting Liu LinkedIn lists Mar 2006 start; CBInsights lists founded 2006; GlobeNewswire/FinSMEs say 'Established in 2007'.", "source_urls": ["https://mashable.com/archive/socialpicks-funded", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/weitingliu", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/social-picks", "https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2012/05/02/475182/20117/en/SocialPicks-Acquired-by-SocialInSight.html"]}, {"type": "headquarters_conflict", "detail": "YC lists New York, NY; CBInsights lists Foster City, California; Gaebler lists mailing address 1300 Crittenden Ln, Mountain View, CA (likely registry/agent, not confirmed HQ).", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/socialpicks", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/social-picks", "https://www.gaebler.com/VC-Funding-D09C4254-F208-4D59-B4E5-9BB8AD0684FE-SocialPicks-12-14-2007"]}, {"type": "first_acquirer_conflict", "detail": "CBInsights incorrectly lists May 2009 acquirer as CloudQuote; VentureBeat (COO confirmation), GlobeNewswire, FinSMEs, and founder LinkedIn confirm FinancialContent as 2009 acquirer.", "source_urls": ["https://www.cbinsights.com/company/social-picks", "https://venturebeat.com/business/financialcontent-acquires-social-investing-site-socialpicks/", "https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2012/05/02/475182/20117/en/SocialPicks-Acquired-by-SocialInSight.html", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/weitingliu"]}, {"type": "status_label_mismatch", "detail": "YC status is 'Inactive'; third-party datasets (CBInsights, YC startup CSV) label company 'Exited' due to acquisitions.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/socialpicks", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/social-picks", "https://github.com/ali-ce/datasets/blob/master/Y-Combinator/Startups.csv"]}, {"type": "acquisition_price_gap", "detail": "Neither the 2009 FinancialContent nor the 2012 SocialInSight acquisition disclosed transaction amounts.", "source_urls": ["https://venturebeat.com/business/financialcontent-acquires-social-investing-site-socialpicks/", "https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2012/05/02/475182/20117/en/SocialPicks-Acquired-by-SocialInSight.html"]}, {"type": "yc_investment_amount_gap", "detail": "YC backing confirmed via batch membership; standard YC seed amount for S07 not separately disclosed in primary sources reviewed.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/socialpicks", "https://www.gaebler.com/VC-Funding-D09C4254-F208-4D59-B4E5-9BB8AD0684FE-SocialPicks-12-14-2007"]}, {"type": "investor_unverified", "detail": "CBInsights lists Thomas McInerney and CloudQuote as investors; not corroborated in VentureBeat, Gaebler, GlobeNewswire, or Mashable primary coverage.", "source_urls": ["https://www.cbinsights.com/company/social-picks", "https://venturebeat.com/business/financialcontent-acquires-social-investing-site-socialpicks/", "https://www.gaebler.com/VC-Funding-D09C4254-F208-4D59-B4E5-9BB8AD0684FE-SocialPicks-12-14-2007"]}, {"type": "employee_history_gap", "detail": "YC reports team_size=2; one additional early engineer (Ian Lin) cited on LinkedIn; no verified peak headcount or org chart found.", "source_urls": ["https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2007/socialpicks.json", "https://tw.linkedin.com/in/ian-lin-0646674"]}, {"type": "site_status_gap", "detail": "socialpicks.com listed on YC; current live site status and post-2012 re-launch outcome not confirmed from primary sources in this research pass.", "source_urls": ["https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2007/socialpicks.json", "https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2012/05/02/475182/20117/en/SocialPicks-Acquired-by-SocialInSight.html"]}], "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/socialpicks", "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2007/socialpicks.json", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/social-picks", "https://venturebeat.com/business/financialcontent-acquires-social-investing-site-socialpicks/", "https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2012/05/02/475182/20117/en/SocialPicks-Acquired-by-SocialInSight.html", "https://mashable.com/archive/socialpicks-funded", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/weitingliu", "https://www.gaebler.com/VC-Funding-D09C4254-F208-4D59-B4E5-9BB8AD0684FE-SocialPicks-12-14-2007", "https://github.com/ali-ce/datasets/blob/master/Y-Combinator/Startups.csv", "https://tw.linkedin.com/in/ian-lin-0646674"]}}]
- source urls
- ["https://github.com/ali-ce/datasets/blob/master/Y-Combinator/Startups.csv", "https://mashable.com/archive/socialpicks-funded", "https://techcrunch.com/2007/01/29/socialpicks-public-and-tracking-your-blog/", "https://tw.linkedin.com/in/ian-lin-0646674", "https://venturebeat.com/business/financialcontent-acquires-social-investing-site-socialpicks/", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/social-picks", "https://www.finsmes.com/2012/05/socialinsight-acquires-socialpicks.html", "https://www.gaebler.com/Funded-Company-B76A2A0E-E12E-43D5-9743-69672A75469E-SocialPicks", "https://www.gaebler.com/VC-Funding-D09C4254-F208-4D59-B4E5-9BB8AD0684FE-SocialPicks-12-14-2007", "https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2012/05/02/475182/20117/en/SocialPicks-Acquired-by-SocialInSight.html", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/weitingliu", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/socialpicks", "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2007/socialpicks.json"]