Crunchbase is focused on looking at companies and people from an investment perspective. Consequently it has stuff like funding rounds and investors. There are no profiles for products, only companies and people.
These features are are differentiate TheyMadeThat from everything else:
TheyMadeThat is focused on history and impact. There are profiles for things, organizations, and people.
In addition to having links to its makers, Things on TMT can have versions and parts. Things can be also be used by people (more on this later)
- versions are links to other things that are variants or versions of itself
- parts are links to other things are components
- things can also have predecessors and successors (older and newer models)
People can have projects which associate them to things. Projects themselves are entities that can have details such as what tools were used (like with 'parts' this can help track a thing's impact), inspirations (things that inspired their work - also tracks impact), and projects have have team members
Organizations can have both predecessors and successors. The rationale is that whenever organizations change names, it tends to signal a large change (a major change in strategy, acquisition, etc...)
Anyways, there's probably something I've forgotten but I've tried to design it to be a rabbit hole.
Wikipedia is too free form because it's a wiki, making entries very inconsistent. The biggest issue is that only people and things that are 'notable' can be added to Wikipedia
These features are are differentiate TheyMadeThat from everything else:
TheyMadeThat is focused on history and impact. There are profiles for things, organizations, and people.
In addition to having links to its makers, Things on TMT can have versions and parts. Things can be also be used by people (more on this later) - versions are links to other things that are variants or versions of itself - parts are links to other things are components - things can also have predecessors and successors (older and newer models)
People can have projects which associate them to things. Projects themselves are entities that can have details such as what tools were used (like with 'parts' this can help track a thing's impact), inspirations (things that inspired their work - also tracks impact), and projects have have team members
Organizations can have both predecessors and successors. The rationale is that whenever organizations change names, it tends to signal a large change (a major change in strategy, acquisition, etc...)
Anyways, there's probably something I've forgotten but I've tried to design it to be a rabbit hole.
try clicking around here https://theymadethat.com/organizations/rv3/y-combinator
You'd be amazed as to how many links YC people have. It’s actually easy to figure out how they got into YC as well