Channel
@fusion_42
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Cite this entry
1,103subscribers
-10 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
| Telegram ID | -1002015540484 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @fusion_42 |
| Created | Between 1 November 2023 and 31 May 2024— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 28 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 9 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 28 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/fusion_42 |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Aug 2026, 11:53 | 1,103 | -1 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 08:46 | 1,104 | +1 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 16:13 | 1,103 | -2 |
| 18 Aug 2026, 23:34 | 1,105 | -3 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 19:13 | 1,108 | -1 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 01:12 | 1,109 | -2 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 17:38 | 1,111 | -2 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 00:02 | 1,113 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 21:11 | 1,113 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 11 March 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 28 July 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
8 reactions across 4 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 50.0% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 4 | 50.0% | |
| 🔥 | 2 | 25.0% | |
| 👍 | 1 | 12.5% | |
| 👻 | 1 | 12.5% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 4 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 8reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 11 March 2026 to 28 July 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Welcome 👋 You’re now subscribed to Fusion42 announcements (broadcast-only). To meet founders, ask questions, and join the rooms, head to the Community Hub: t.me/F42_Community Quick access • 🔥 Danger Room (2-min pitch reviews): t.me/F42_Fundraising/1 For the ❤️ of startups.
Signed WelcometoF42
Wire - know what changed, know what matters The global intelligence feed, filtered hard, with the “so what” attached. Every story carries The Wire Takeaway - not “Samsung raises foundry prices” but “your wafer costs just went up 10-15%, call your suppliers this week. Filter by News type, sector, region to get fully personalised and localised news. Weekly reports roll it up so you can skim Monday morning and get back…
Signed DeReK WaTSoN
Scout - know who just got funded Newly funded startups, pre-seed to Series B, as the rounds happen. Every round in your space is intelligence. A competitor raising £8m tells you what investors are paying for. A fund backing three companies adjacent to yours tells you exactly who to email next. https://scout.fusion-42.com/scout-frontend
Signed DeReK WaTSoN
Welcome 👋 You’re now subscribed to Fusion42 announcements (broadcast-only). To meet founders, ask questions, and join the rooms, head to the Community Hub: t.me/F42_Community Quick access • 🔥 Danger Room (2-min pitch reviews): t.me/F42_Fundraising/1 For the ❤️ of startups.
Signed WelcometoF42
How did SpaceX become a $2.5tn company? Everyone's arguing whether it's worth it. Wrong question. The question is how it got there, because it's not a valuation, it's a story with a price tag. And once you see the mechanism, you can't unsee it. Same trick, three times over, and the next one still to come. $10tn market cap company on its way https://open.substack.com/pub/derekwatsonfusion42/p/how-did-spacex-get-to-…
👍1👻1
Signed DeReK WaTSoN
Stop waiting for a better model. There isn't a meaningfully better one coming that changes your business, and deep down you already know it. The models are good enough. Infrastructure's built, capital's in, access is solved. None of that is the moat. Build the real thing underneath and you stop watching model releases altogether, every one just makes you faster. The labs aren't racing you. They're powering you. Th…
❤2🔥1
Signed DeReK WaTSoN
Welcome 👋 You’re now subscribed to Fusion42 announcements (broadcast-only). To meet founders, ask questions, and join the rooms, head to the Community Hub: t.me/F42_Community Quick access • 🔥 Danger Room (2-min pitch reviews): t.me/F42_Fundraising/1 For the ❤️ of startups.
Signed WelcometoF42
Sci-Fi vs Reality Ready Player One (2018): Sci-Fi vs Reality The future already happened. It was just fiction first. Fiction gave us one OASIS. Reality gave us many, and none of them talk to each other. The film’s biggest blind spot wasn’t the tech; it was the brutal business model. Why would Roblox want you to take your digital goods to Meta's world? Zero incentive. Instead, we got walled gardens. But that gap, th…
Signed Derek. (F42 Founder)
Domain Histories. The best founders are students of history — Privacy & Identity You have 200 passwords. The industry that created that problem now wants to sell you the solution. This endless login chaos isn't some grand conspiracy; it's the result of the internet being built for machines, not people. Identity was a patch, bolted on with every new service demanding a separate username and password. This created a …
Signed Derek. (F42 Founder)
Welcome 👋 You’re now subscribed to Fusion42 announcements (broadcast-only). To meet founders, ask questions, and join the rooms, head to the Community Hub: t.me/F42_Community Quick access • 🔥 Danger Room (2-min pitch reviews): t.me/F42_Fundraising/1 For the ❤️ of startups.
Signed WelcometoF42
Startup Principles for an AI World — Know Your Models The old playbook of deep technical expertise meant knowing how to build every brick in your stack. Now, the stack is a menu, and your most critical skill is knowing what to order. Using the wrong AI model isn't just a technical misstep; it's a product and cost architecture flaw. You’re no longer aiming to build the engine, but to drive it with precision and effi…
Signed Derek. (F42 Founder)
Sci-Fi vs Reality — Minority Report (2002): Sci-Fi vs Reality Sci-Fi vs Reality Minority Report (2002): Sci-Fi vs Reality In 2002, Minority Report showed us gesture interfaces as effortless, dancelike control. Twenty years later, we still use mice. Turns out, holding your arms up like an orchestra conductor for eight hours a day presents a practical problem — what designers call 'gorilla arm.' The writers got the v…
Signed Derek. (F42 Founder)
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @fusion_42. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 28 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Fusion42 The Startup channel for Founders, Framers and Funders” (@fusion_42), 1,103 subscribers as measured 28 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/fusion_42.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.