Launch Videos

Proteins are the machinery of life, and the platform we are building is a new way of understanding them at the molecular level.

The spoken opening line (at most 25 words).

103k views

Fewer views than 75% of the library · #449 of 598

Runtime
2:40
Posted
Apr 22, 2026
Pace
163 wpm
Y Combinator on X

Congrats to @10x_Science on their $4.8M seed! They're building AI for molecular-level…

2:40 · Apr 22, 2026

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Launch anatomy

When each beat happens. Beats that weren’t found are left out; the full transcript isn’t published.

Launch anatomy for Y CombinatorRuntime 2:40. First five seconds: Other spoken line. Company named at 14s.0–5s hook · Other spoken lineCompany named at 14s14s Company named0:000:401:202:002:40
  • First five secondsOther spoken line
  • Company named14s

Not detected: product named, demo starts, call to action

Narration pace

163 words a minute · brisk

Narration pace: 163 words per minute; library median 142.SparseConversationalBriskDenselibrary median 142

Launches at this pace have a median of 327k views (n=215). Pace covers the whole runtime, pauses included.

Show the data
PaceMedian viewsVideos (n)
Sparse (0–80)571,51184
Conversational (80–140)346,258185
Brisk (140–180)326,715215
Dense (180–+)670,38071

How it compares

  • 0.3× the median funding announcement launch (303k, n=91)
  • 0.2× the median biotech/science launch (430k, n=16)
  • 0.3× the library median (407k, n=598)
Where this launch landsEach dot is one launch. The ringed dot is this one.
  1. All launchesn=598 · median 407k
  2. Funding announcementn=91 · median 303k
  3. biotech/sciencen=16 · median 430k

One launch Median This launchViews, log scale

Show the data
GroupVideosMedian25th pct75th pctMax
All launches598407,120103,0301,346,326138,357,050
Funding announcement91302,61799,0731,218,57114,373,501
biotech/science16430,090103,0302,085,4869,822,446

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Hook style, category, “why it worked” and the takeaway are AI-assisted labels, not hand-reviewed. Beat timings miss some moments: “not detected” does not mean it never happened.

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Videos belong to the companies that posted them and play through X’s official embed, which loads only after you click. Hook labels and “why it worked” notes are AI-assisted analysis and can be wrong. Curated from public launch posts on X. Data as of Nov 4, 2026. Corrections and removal