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The Startup Tapes #016 — It's super, super lonely to be a founder

Entertainment — With Pascal Finette of Singularity University
Entertainmentest. 2016
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 8.0 · 1/4
8.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
19
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 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 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 19 probesavg response 894 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 Tapes #016 — It's super, super lonely to be a founder'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
Digital Good Times - The Dragon Con Episode - Ft. Crispy & Tommy of DragonConTVentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Social Buzz Chat Podcast - Episode 1entertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Play Well - Ep. 12: Dreaming up Space Teamentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Happy Mitten - 56: Board Games, Business, and MTGHeadQuartersentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Go Forth & Nerd!entertainmentsimilar100%8.0+8.0— unverified
Real Virtual Show 047entertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
Millionaire Interviewsentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
App Guy Podcast: Fuck You Startup Worldentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live

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
2026-08-26 09:49Z519unknown
2026-08-17 14:02Z1314unknown
2026-08-10 00:26Z1695unknown
2026-08-08 05:01Z69unknown
2026-07-31 15:58Z402unknown
2026-07-26 17:52Z1213unknown
2026-07-18 14:35Z1041unknown
2026-07-14 09:28Z194unknown
2026-07-04 16:32Z1845unknown
2026-07-03 01:09Z2051unknown
2026-06-24 14:08Z159unknown
2026-06-23 13:17Z356unknown
2026-06-21 21:35Z854unknown
2026-06-20 19:41Z804unknown
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · The Startup Tapes #016 — It's super, super lonely to be a founder · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/the-startup-tapes-016-it-s-super-super-lonely-to-be-a-founder · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.