Launch Videos

Ulysses

The spoken opening line (at most 25 words).

148k views

Fewer views than 71% of the library · #425 of 598

Runtime
1:02
Posted
Jul 17, 2026
Pace
148 wpm
a16z on X

A16Z American Dynamism presents: Ulysses. Mariana Minerals. Radiant. Coming soon.

1:02 · Jul 17, 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 a16zRuntime 1:02. First five seconds: Other spoken line. Call to action at 54s.0–5s hook · Other spoken lineCall to action at 54s54s Call to action0:000:160:310:461:02
  • First five secondsOther spoken line
  • Call to action54s

Not detected: company named, product named, demo starts

Narration pace

148 words a minute · brisk

Narration pace: 148 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 teaser launch (540k, n=28)
  • 0.4× the median funding launch (394k, n=94)
  • 0.4× 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. Teasern=28 · median 540k
  3. fundingn=94 · median 394k

One launch Median This launchViews, log scale

Show the data
GroupVideosMedian25th pct75th pctMax
All launches598407,120103,0301,346,326138,357,050
Teaser28540,344148,4161,440,4624,955,634
funding94393,739148,4161,118,00414,373,501

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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