The Pulse

1,063 transcripts, every word counted. What Silicon Valley talks about, year by year, and who said it on this show first.

The interview, measured

Computed from every diarized word: how much the hosts talk, how hard the questions press.

Host talk share2% in 2026
0%10%20%201720192021202320262017 · 0%2018 · 0%2019 · 5%2020 · 0%2021 · 0%2022 · 18%2023 · 8%2024 · 1%2025 · 3%2026 · 2%

Share of speaking time taken by the hosts, from the diarized turns of every scored episode.

Pushback0.8/10
0510201720192021202320262017 · 0.12018 · 0.32019 · 1.72020 · 0.32021 · 0.12022 · 0.82023 · 0.82024 · 12025 · 1.12026 · 0.8

How often claims get contested instead of accepted: the yearly mean of every scored topic segment.

Episodes measured73 in 2026
0250500201720192021202320262017 · 412018 · 422019 · 4702020 · 192021 · 82022 · 112023 · 862024 · 732025 · 1532026 · 73

Episodes with full speaker diarization. These feed the charts around this one.

pushback = contests claims, scored 0-10 per topic segment by an LLM with a published rubric; talk share is pure math on the diarized turns.

The show itself

00m25040m50080m20172018201920202021202220232024202520262017 · 41 episodes2018 · 42 episodes2019 · 471 episodes2020 · 19 episodes2021 · 9 episodes2022 · 11 episodes2023 · 86 episodes2024 · 73 episodes2025 · 153 episodes2026 · 73 episodes2017 · median 22m2018 · median 25m2019 · median 29m2020 · median 18m2021 · median 21m2022 · median 80m2023 · median 29m2024 · median 31m2025 · median 44m2026 · median 47mepisodesmedian length

Every processed episode by year published. Bars count them, the gold line tracks the median runtime. The show got longer as it got bigger.

The buzzwords

crypto → 2,159 mentions
2014peak 918.5/M words2026
first said 2014-03-20 by Balaji Srinivasan @0:55
LLM → 773 mentions
2014peak 286.8/M words2026
first said 2023-01-24 by Sarah Wang @1:06:36
AGI → 279 mentions
2014peak 140/M words2026
first said 2016-06-28 by Dr. Fei-Fei Li @10:26
AI agents → 261 mentions
2014peak 114.5/M words2026
first said 2017-01-12 by Voiceover @0:47
NFT → 223 mentions
2014peak 36.6/M words2026
first said 2018-07-20 by Elad Gil @23:44
vibe coding → 175 mentions
2014peak 87.6/M words2026
first said 2025-03-13 by Steph Smith @0:30
secondaries 88 mentions
2014peak 21/M words2026
first said 2014-08-15 by Steven Sinowski @6:39
unicorn → 81 mentions
2014peak 35.7/M words2026
first said 2014-09-05 by Benedict Evans @8:12
PLG → 46 mentions
2014peak 19.1/M words2026
first said 2023-06-14 by Ali Godsey @28:59
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