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Founders and Friends Podcast - Episode 2 w. Rod Drury, CEO of Xero

Entertainment — Scott Orn of Kruze Consulting & Rod Drury, CEO of Xero
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
2
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 2083 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 2 w. Rod Drury, CEO of Xero'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: 2 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
Founders and Friends Podcast - Episode 3 w. Brian Mullen of Twilioentertainmentsimilar80%40.00.0● live
Accidental Tech Podcastentertainmentsimilar75%46.00.0● live
Faster Than Normal: The Podcast about the Gifts of ADHDentertainmentsimilar75%40.00.0● live
Fresh Air - From Walter White to LBJ, Bryan Cranston is a masterentertainmentsimilar75%8.00.0— unverified
Re/code Replay - Ben Silbermannentertainmentsimilar75%0.00.0■ inactive
Music and Lyricsentertainmentsimilar75%16.60.0— unverified
a16z Podcast: Investing in (Business and Career) Changeentertainmentsimilar75%40.00.0● live
OK Productive - 3: Goals and Actions Episodeproductivitytag-overlap75%16.00.0→ redirected

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.comcloudflare2810alive
2026-08-17 14:08Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare2347alive
2026-08-10 00:31Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare2439alive
2026-08-08 05:06Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare2694alive
2026-07-31 16:03Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare2528alive
2026-07-26 17:56Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare1738alive
2026-07-18 14:40Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare2275alive
2026-07-14 09:35Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare2169alive
2026-07-04 16:36Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare1895alive
2026-07-03 01:14Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare1718alive
2026-06-23 13:22Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare1789alive
2026-06-21 21:39Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare1477alive
2026-06-20 19:46Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare1970alive
2026-06-19 13:27Z200kruzeconsulting.comcloudflare1310alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Founders and Friends Podcast - Episode 2 w. Rod Drury, CEO of Xero · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/founders-and-friends-podcast-episode-2-w-rod-drury-ceo-of-xero · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.