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The Startup Catalyst Podcast: Episode - 09 Mark Quezada, CTO and Co-Founder at Hobnob

Entertainment — Building w/Twilio, remote teams, working with Pierre Omidyar [Marketing, Developer Tools]
Entertainmentest. 2016
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+9.6
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+9.6). Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 76% of 17 probesavg response 1579 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
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

The Startup Catalyst Podcast: Episode - 09 Mark Quezada, CTO and Co-Founder at Hobnob's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. 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: 4 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
Building the Future Show - Episode 138 with Rob Belcherothertag-overlap83%16.00.0→ redirected
Test & Code Podcast #27 - Mahmoud Hashemidev-toolstag-overlap67%1.00.0■ inactive
Ember Landeducationtag-overlap67%8.00.0— unverified
Developer Teaentertainmentsimilar67%40.00.0● live
This Week in Startups - Ep 24 with Gary Vaynerchukentertainmentsimilar67%40.00.0● live
Startup - #13 Fake It Til You Make Iteducationtag-overlap67%40.00.0● live
Hack To Start - Episode 90 - Cristina Cordova (Stripe)entertainmentsimilar67%40.0+9.6● live
Synthwave Programming Musicentertainmentsimilar67%12.80.0— 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
2026-08-26 10:09Z10000timeout
2026-08-18 13:03Z202sultanventures.comnginx621alive
2026-08-11 00:01Z202sultanventures.comnginx671alive
2026-08-08 05:49Z202sultanventures.comnginx785alive
2026-08-05 18:12Z202sultanventures.comnginx1324alive
2026-07-30 17:26Z202sultanventures.comnginx1151alive
2026-07-18 15:21Z202sultanventures.comnginx1194alive
2026-07-16 09:30Z403sultanventures.comnginx489unknown
2026-07-09 10:52Z403sultanventures.comnginx884unknown
2026-07-04 04:05Z202sultanventures.comnginx1730alive
2026-06-23 13:30Z202sultanventures.comnginx1430alive
2026-06-21 21:47Z202sultanventures.comnginx389alive
2026-06-20 19:54Z202sultanventures.comnginx311alive
2026-06-19 15:08Z202sultanventures.comnginx1129alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · The Startup Catalyst Podcast: Episode - 09 Mark Quezada, CTO and Co-Founder at Hobnob · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/the-startup-catalyst-podcast-episode-09-mark-quezada-cto-and-co-founder-at-hobnob · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.