- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"topic": "Founded year", "detail": "CB Insights and Tracxn say 2015; Forbes, PR Newswire, Medium, and parsers.vc say 2017; YC profile says 2018", "source_urls": ["https://www.cbinsights.com/company/move", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/theessential/__0-HwiVmd5FCrzZ5JSkTpVprbEG6v6NKJ5bpE6gIqu9E", "https://www.forbes.com/profile/chai-mishra/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/the-essential"]}, {"topic": "Total funding", "detail": "CB Insights $2.95M, Forbes $3.5M (2020), LinkedIn aggregate $13M; no single authoritative cap table publicly verified", "source_urls": ["https://www.cbinsights.com/company/move", "https://www.forbes.com/profile/chai-mishra/", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-co"]}, {"topic": "Employee count", "detail": "YC lists 11; LinkedIn lists 9; Medium (2019) cites 15-person team; parsers.vc lists 11–50", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/the-essential", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-co", "https://medium.com/kickstarter/this-digital-supermarket-wants-to-deliver-artisanal-products-without-the-whole-foods-price-tag-45417470f521", "https://parsers.vc/startup/theessential.com/"]}, {"topic": "Co-founder attribution", "detail": "YC lists only Chai Mishra; Tracxn and askpot.com list Sebastian Werz as co-founder; YC omits Werz", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/the-essential", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/theessential/__0-HwiVmd5FCrzZ5JSkTpVprbEG6v6NKJ5bpE6gIqu9E", "https://askpot.com/directory/theessential.com"]}, {"topic": "Business pivot", "detail": "2019–2020 positioning was members-only online grocery (Move); current site and about page focus on factory-direct furniture/home goods; YC still tags Food Tech", "source_urls": ["https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/introducing-move-a-members-only-online-supermarket-300924293.html", "http://www.theessential.com", "https://theessential.com/pages/about", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/the-essential"]}, {"topic": "Membership requirement", "detail": "YC states members-only and own-brand-only model; about page states non-members can shop but membership adds perks", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/the-essential", "https://theessential.com/pages/about"]}, {"topic": "Name collision risk", "detail": "Unrelated companies share similar names: Essential Products (Andy Rubin smartphone startup, shut down) and Inhabit IQ / Inhabit® (PropTech, thousands of employees)—distinct from Inhabit.io, Inc / The Essential", "source_urls": ["https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311126", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/inhabit-iq", "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-essential/id1522395728"]}, {"topic": "Stale third-party profiles", "detail": "Forbes (Dec 2020) and parsers.vc still describe grocery focus and 2020 metrics; may not reflect current furniture-centric business", "source_urls": ["https://www.forbes.com/profile/chai-mishra/", "https://parsers.vc/startup/theessential.com/", "http://www.theessential.com"]}]]
- source urls
- ["http://www.theessential.com", "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-essential/id1522395728", "https://askpot.com/directory/theessential.com", "https://crushcrowdfunding.com/how-move-raised-114943-on-launch-day/", "https://linkedin.com/in/sebastianwerz", "https://medium.com/kickstarter/this-digital-supermarket-wants-to-deliver-artisanal-products-without-the-whole-foods-price-tag-45417470f521", "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311126", "https://parsers.vc/startup/theessential.com/", "https://theessential.com/pages/about", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/theessential/__0-HwiVmd5FCrzZ5JSkTpVprbEG6v6NKJ5bpE6gIqu9E", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/move", "https://www.forbes.com/profile/chai-mishra/", "https://www.importgenius.com/importers/inhabit-io-inc", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/inhabit-iq", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-co", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/introducing-move-a-members-only-online-supermarket-300924293.html", "https://www.supermarketnews.com/foodservice-retail/making-a-move-on-amazon", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/the-essential", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/the-essential/jobs"]