- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"issue": "YC founder listing incomplete", "detail": "Y Combinator profile lists only Phil Kast (shown twice) and omits co-founder Eric Eldon, despite multiple first-party and press sources naming Eldon as co-founder.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/writewith", "https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/16/hello-world/", "https://wellfound.com/p/eric-eldon"]}, {"issue": "Company status conflicting across databases", "detail": "YC and YCDB list WriteWith as Inactive/Dead; YC Universe W07 batch page lists WriteWith status as 'live'.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/writewith", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/writewith", "https://ycuniverse.com/ycw07/"]}, {"issue": "Funding amount not individually confirmed", "detail": "YCDB reports $0.0m total funding (likely excluding or not capturing YC seed). Exact WriteWith YC investment dollar amount not stated in primary sources; only the general W07 YC deal terms are documented.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycdb.co/company/writewith", "https://techcrunch.com/2007/03/09/demo-day-y-combinators-spring-chicks/"]}, {"issue": "College-newspaper founder attribution ambiguous", "detail": "TechCrunch attributes origin to founders at Stanford Daily and Binghamton Pipe Dream but does not name which founder attended which paper; Eric Eldon is confirmed at Stanford Daily; Phil Kast's link to Pipe Dream is not individually verified in primary sources.", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/writewith-launches-makes-shared-blogging-easier/", "https://venturebeat.com/business/introducing-venturebeats-redesign-digitalmedia-and-our-core-team/", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-kast-2821833"]}, {"issue": "Exact shutdown date undocumented", "detail": "Eric Eldon stated in Nov 2011 that WriteWith failed ~4 years prior (~2007); no precise dissolution date or public announcement found.", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/16/hello-world/", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-kast-2821833"]}, {"issue": "Failure reasons partially documented", "detail": "Eric Eldon cited organizations being 'stubbornly stuck on Word' as a main reason for failure; no audited post-mortem or financial details published.", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/12/draft-is-the-best-word-processor-you-can-write-with-today/"]}]]
- source urls
- ["https://techcrunch.com/2007/03/09/demo-day-y-combinators-spring-chicks/", "https://techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/writewith-launches-makes-shared-blogging-easier/", "https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/16/hello-world/", "https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/12/draft-is-the-best-word-processor-you-can-write-with-today/", "https://venturebeat.com/business/introducing-venturebeats-redesign-digitalmedia-and-our-core-team/", "https://wellfound.com/p/eric-eldon", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericeldon", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-kast-2821833", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/writewith", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/writewith", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/writewith/jobs", "https://ycuniverse.com/ycw07/"]