I once pleaded with Crunchbase to remove a person from my former company’s public-facing page, due to a legal and personal obligation I had. They refused, pron

I once pleaded with Crunchbase to remove a person from my former company’s public-facing page, due to a legal and personal obligation I had. They refused, pronouncing the integrity of their data. I lost a very valuable friendship over that insignificant datum. In addition to my loss, the person I requested to remove must now have this page at the top of their google search results, which is a shame, especially given that I added them to the page without their consent, which at the time did not have such apparent consequences. For what it’s worth, it was a small, two-person company. In my opinion, they should have respected my humble request. After this experience and others, I do often question the integrity of the data-centric, journalistic community in NYC.