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Calling this a checklist is probably confusing. It's better described as a list of answers you should obtain.

For example "Has a co-founder stepped down?". A single yes or no answer doesn't tell you much. But an answer like "Yes, we had two technical co-founders who fundamentally disagreed on technical strategy" should be explored. Why did the disagree? What was the ongoing impact?

Based on a scan of the questions they aren't actually meant to be answered as a Q&A (despite the author's description) on a spreadsheet / document.

They are more about probing questions to start a discussion.

>A fair warning-- there are precisely zero companies in the world to which the answer to all of these questions is positive.

Then consider it a score out of 100

Wouldn't that simply be a "test" rather than a "Turing test."