- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"field": "headquarters_location", "conflict": {"value": "YC/CNBC/Wikipedia list Los Angeles; SEC Form D (Jan 2025) lists San Francisco; Tracxn lists Marina del Rey; prior SEC filings (2022) listed Marina del Rey", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/whatnot", "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1844768/000184476825000002/0001844768-25-000002.txt", "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1844768/000184476822000001/0001844768-22-000001.txt", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/whatnot/__uDL2ItSrNAAhaz26cJMWEL-19y_nvdU0Do_yLVW9BmI"]}}, {"field": "employee_count", "conflict": {"value": "Sources range from 600 (Jan 2025) to 731 (YC) to 900 (Oct 2025) to ~800 (Wikipedia) to 1,893 (Tracxn May 2026); no single authoritative current figure", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/livestream-shopping-app-whatnot-raises-265m-pinning-valuation-at-nearly-5b/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/whatnot", "https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ecommerce-unicorn-whatnot-raises-seriesf/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatnot", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/whatnot/__uDL2ItSrNAAhaz26cJMWEL-19y_nvdU0Do_yLVW9BmI"]}}, {"field": "total_funding", "conflict": {"value": "Crunchbase/CNBC report ~$968M; Tracxn reports $975M; TechCrunch (pre-Series F) reported ~$746M", "source_urls": ["https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ecommerce-unicorn-whatnot-raises-seriesf/", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/whatnot/__uDL2ItSrNAAhaz26cJMWEL-19y_nvdU0Do_yLVW9BmI", "https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/livestream-shopping-app-whatnot-raises-265m-pinning-valuation-at-nearly-5b/"]}}, {"field": "founders", "conflict": {"value": "YC, Crunchbase, Wikipedia, and SEC filings list two founders (LaFontaine, Head); Tracxn and secondary databases list four including Walters and Costa Borges", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/whatnot", "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whatnot", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatnot", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/whatnot/__uDL2ItSrNAAhaz26cJMWEL-19y_nvdU0Do_yLVW9BmI"]}}, {"field": "logan_head_title", "conflict": {"value": "YC profile lists 'Founder' only; Crunchbase and Contrary Research list CTO", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/whatnot", "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whatnot", "https://research.contrary.com/company/whatnot"]}}, {"field": "founded_date_precision", "conflict": {"value": "Most sources say 2019; Crunchbase says Dec 1, 2019; Contrary Research says December 2019 launch", "source_urls": ["https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whatnot", "https://research.contrary.com/company/whatnot", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/whatnot"]}}, {"field": "crunchbase_last_round", "conflict": {"value": "Crunchbase profile snippet showed Series E / Jan 2025 as last round; Series F closed Oct 2025 — profile may lag", "source_urls": ["https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whatnot", "https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ecommerce-unicorn-whatnot-raises-seriesf/"]}}, {"field": "billion_orders_milestone", "conflict": {"value": "Fortune headline reports 1 billion orders and $11.5B valuation (June 2026) but article body was paywalled/truncated in fetch; milestone not independently verified from full article text", "source_urls": ["https://fortune.com/2026/06/18/whatnot-one-billion-orders/"]}}, {"field": "market_share_and_gmv", "conflict": {"value": "60% live-commerce share and $8B+ GMV are company-reported via CNBC/Wikipedia; not independently audited", "source_urls": ["https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/whatnot-cnbc-disruptor-50-ranking.html", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatnot"]}}]]
- source urls
- ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatnot", "https://fortune.com/2026/06/18/whatnot-one-billion-orders/", "https://linkedin.com/in/gustavo-adolfo-costa-borges-b5b1301b", "https://mastersofscale.com/people/grant-lafontaine/", "https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ecommerce-unicorn-whatnot-raises-seriesf/", "https://research.contrary.com/company/whatnot", "https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2025/10/28/whatnot-bags-series-f-funding-co-led-by-dst-global-and-capitalg-as-its-valuation-hits-115-billion", "https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/02/fast-growing-livestream-shopping-platform-whatnot-acquires-pastel-labs-hires-vp-of-engineering/", "https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/livestream-shopping-app-whatnot-raises-265m-pinning-valuation-at-nearly-5b/", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/whatnot/__uDL2ItSrNAAhaz26cJMWEL-19y_nvdU0Do_yLVW9BmI", "https://www.builtinla.com/articles/whatnot-raises-225m-115b-valuation-20251028", "https://www.businessinsider.com/whatnot-cofounders-share-how-they-sold-investors-on-livestream-marketplace-2022-4", "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/whatnot-cnbc-disruptor-50-ranking.html", "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whatnot", "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1844768/000184476822000001/0001844768-22-000001.txt", "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1844768/000184476825000002/0001844768-25-000002.txt", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/whatnot"]