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The Growth Show: Chris Messina

Entertainment — The hashtag's creator is glad he gave it away for free [Ridesharing, Social Network]
Entertainmentest. 2016
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
19
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. 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
19 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 19 probesavg response 1482 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
music.youtube.com
edge
direct origin
server
ESF
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

The Growth Show: Chris Messina's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://music.youtube.com/) when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. 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
Anna Faris is Unqualified - Ike Barinholtzentertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
The Hacking UI Podcast #16 - Jason Zook (BuyMyFuture)entertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Tech Communities with Jessica Roseentertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
AppChat Radio - 14: Josh Jacobs & Justin Ponzcek of Rhymeo.coentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
The Moth Podcast - Eve Plumb & The Pittsburgh StorySLAMentertainmentsimilar100%7.50.0■ inactive
Audiologs x Tibz - 014: Street Fighter and Carnivalentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
This Week in Startups - Ep 667 with Tomasz Tunguzentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Tim Ferriss Show - Chris Sacca on being different and making billionsentertainmentsimilar100%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 tierunknown
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 14:18Z200play.google.com → music.youtube.comESF2386redirected_offsite
2026-08-17 13:57Z200play.google.com → music.youtube.comESF1415redirected_offsite
2026-08-10 00:22Z200play.google.com → music.youtube.comESF1048redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 04:57Z200play.google.com → music.youtube.comESF1373redirected_offsite
2026-07-31 15:54Z200play.google.com → music.youtube.comESF1618redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:48Z200play.google.com → music.youtube.comESF1498redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 14:31Z200play.google.com → music.youtube.comESF1716redirected_offsite
2026-07-14 09:23Z200play.google.com → music.youtube.comESF993redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 16:26Z200play.google.com → music.youtube.comESF1591redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 01:05Z200play.google.com → music.youtube.comESF1612redirected_offsite
2026-06-24 14:03Z200play.google.com → music.youtube.comESF1192redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 13:13Z200play.google.com → music.youtube.comESF1437redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 21:31Z200play.google.com → music.youtube.comESF1376redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 19:37Z200play.google.com → music.youtube.comESF1497redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · The Growth Show: Chris Messina · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/the-growth-show-chris-messina · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.