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Acquired #23 - NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)

Entertainment — Ben & David cover Apple’s 1996 acquisition of NeXT [Mac, Investing, Venture Capital]
Entertainmentest. 2016
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+9.6
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
19
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 19 observations. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+9.6). 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 95% of 19 probesavg response 3159 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
acquired.fm
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Acquired #23 - NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)'s listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. 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: 3 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
Bytepodentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
bandbreite.fm - bb003 - Snippet for Christmasentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
The Artist Huntentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Jet Set Radio Liveentertainmentsimilar100%40.0+9.6● live
Karaoke Pageentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
NBA.FMentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Vibeasy: positive vibes, every week.healthtag-overlap100%30.40.0● live
SaaStr 067: Josh Reeves, Founder & CEO @ Gustoentertainmentsimilar100%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 tierquiet
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 09:48Z200acquired.fmcloudflare4513alive
2026-08-17 14:01Z200acquired.fmcloudflare3688alive
2026-08-10 00:25Z200acquired.fmcloudflare2731alive
2026-08-08 05:00Z200acquired.fmcloudflare4059alive
2026-07-31 15:57Z200acquired.fmcloudflare1721alive
2026-07-26 17:51Z200acquired.fmcloudflare2289alive
2026-07-18 14:34Z200acquired.fmcloudflare3487alive
2026-07-14 09:27Z10010timeout
2026-07-04 16:30Z200acquired.fmcloudflare2741alive
2026-07-03 01:08Z200acquired.fmcloudflare2241alive
2026-06-24 14:07Z200acquired.fmcloudflare1547alive
2026-06-23 13:16Z200acquired.fmcloudflare1529alive
2026-06-21 21:34Z200acquired.fmcloudflare1903alive
2026-06-20 19:40Z200acquired.fmcloudflare1765alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Acquired #23 - NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit) · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/acquired-23-next-live-show-at-the-geekwire-summit · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.