- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"field": "acquisition_price", "issue": "Official acquisition price never disclosed. YCDB lists a $15.0M exit value estimate without published methodology or primary confirmation.", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/25/google-acquires-talkbin-a-feedback-platform-for-businesses-thats-only-five-months-old/", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/talkbin"]}, {"field": "total_funding", "issue": "CB Insights reports only $20K raised (YC). Start Fund offered $150K to every W11 company, but no source confirms TalkBin accepted it. CEO Qasar Younis also reported $7M in unclosed seed commitments in March 2011.", "source_urls": ["https://www.cbinsights.com/company/talkbin", "https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/28/yuri-milner-sv-angel-offer-every-new-y-combinator-startup-150k/", "https://phideltatheta.org/news-stories/qasar-younis-kettering/"]}, {"field": "customer_traction", "issue": "10K+ customers claim appears only on a founder LinkedIn profile; contemporaneous press described the company as mostly stealthy with apps not found on app stores at acquisition announcement.", "source_urls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhillons", "https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/25/google-acquires-talkbin-a-feedback-platform-for-businesses-thats-only-five-months-old/"]}, {"field": "post_acquisition_product_name", "issue": "Co-founder Sunny Dhillon LinkedIn states product was re-launched as 'Google Hangouts for Places within Google search'; this naming is not corroborated in independent press coverage.", "source_urls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhillons", "https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/28/google-shuts-down-talkbin-a-feedback-platform-for-businesses-that-it-acquired-in-2011/"]}, {"field": "employee_count", "issue": "No reliable headcount beyond the three founders pre-acquisition. Third-party database employee figures are inconsistent and likely reflect post-acquisition Google attribution.", "source_urls": ["https://allthingsd.com/20110425/google-buys-mobile-customer-feedback-start-up/", "https://startupintros.com/orgs/talkbin"]}, {"field": "founder_roles", "issue": "Sunny Dhillon is listed as 'Founder' on YC/Startup Intros but as 'CTO' in Michael Ma's 2022 retrospective; official titles at acquisition not uniformly documented.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/talkbin", "https://medium.com/@MichaelandMa/whatever-happened-to-the-class-of-w11-yc-a-decade-later-c15174d81d7d"]}, {"field": "funding_database_discrepancy", "issue": "YCDB lists $0.0M funding while CB Insights lists $20K total raised.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycdb.co/company/talkbin", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/talkbin"]}]]
- source urls
- ["http://matchatter.blogspot.com/2011/06/y-combinator-is-boot-camp-for-startups.html", "https://allthingsd.com/20110425/google-buys-mobile-customer-feedback-start-up/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasar_Younis", "https://medium.com/@MichaelandMa/whatever-happened-to-the-class-of-w11-yc-a-decade-later-c15174d81d7d", "https://medium.com/xoogler-co/xoogler-co-q-a-with-michael-ma-co-founder-of-liquid-2-ventures-6db65c52e7ef", "https://phideltatheta.org/news-stories/qasar-younis-kettering/", "https://startupintros.com/orgs/talkbin", "https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/28/yuri-milner-sv-angel-offer-every-new-y-combinator-startup-150k/", "https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/29/90-of-y-combinator-startups-have-already-accepted-the-150k-start-fund-offer/", "https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/25/google-acquires-talkbin-a-feedback-platform-for-businesses-thats-only-five-months-old/", "https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/28/google-shuts-down-talkbin-a-feedback-platform-for-businesses-that-it-acquired-in-2011/", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/talkbin", "https://www.geekwire.com/2014/google-talkbin-talktothemanager/", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhillons", "https://www.liquid2.vc/team", "https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-silicon-valley-presents-qasar-younis-formerly-yc-talkbin/", "https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-VCDB-10316", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/talkbin", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/talkbin"]