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Founders and Friends Podcast - Episode 1 w. David Barrett of Expensify

Entertainment — Scott Orn of Kruze Consulting & David Barrett of Expensify
Entertainmentest. 2016
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 18 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
18 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 18 probesavg response 2100 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
kruzeconsulting.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Founders and Friends Podcast - Episode 1 w. David Barrett of Expensify's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
99% Invisible - 181: Milk carton kidsentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Planet Money Episode 550 - When Salaries Aren't Secretentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Planet Money - 669: A or Bentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
This Week in Startups - 523: Renowned VC Fred Wilsonentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Indian Startup Show - 8: Founder of Happy Rootsentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Health Geeks Radio: Finding Your Untapped Potentialentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Season - The Bagnoli Bowlentertainmentsimilar100%40.0+4.8● live
MVP - 43: Ad block and tackleentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 14:37Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare2666alive
2026-08-17 14:08Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare2258alive
2026-08-10 00:31Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare2578alive
2026-08-08 05:06Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare2910alive
2026-07-31 16:03Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare2387alive
2026-07-26 17:56Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare1791alive
2026-07-18 14:40Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare2298alive
2026-07-14 09:35Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare2159alive
2026-07-04 16:36Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare1840alive
2026-07-03 01:14Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare1892alive
2026-06-23 13:22Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare1649alive
2026-06-21 21:39Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare1507alive
2026-06-20 19:46Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare1947alive
2026-06-19 13:27Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare1511alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Founders and Friends Podcast - Episode 1 w. David Barrett of Expensify · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/founders-and-friends-podcast-episode-1-w-david-barrett-of-expensify · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.