The Pulse

79 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 share100% in 2026
0%50%100%2021202320262021 · 51%2022 · 65%2023 · 64%2024 · 83%2025 · 81%2026 · 100%

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

Pushback0.6/10
05102021202320262021 · 12022 · 0.72023 · 0.82024 · 12025 · 0.92026 · 0.6

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

Episodes measured6 in 2026
015302021202320262021 · 72022 · 262023 · 142024 · 112025 · 132026 · 6

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

00m15150m30300m20202021202220232024202520262020 · 1 episodes2021 · 7 episodes2022 · 26 episodes2023 · 14 episodes2024 · 12 episodes2025 · 13 episodes2026 · 6 episodes2020 · median 39m2021 · median 120m2022 · median 124m2023 · median 174m2024 · median 225m2025 · median 219m2026 · median 269mepisodesmedian 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 → 298 mentions
2022peak 271.6/M words2026
first said 2021-09-22 by David Rosenthal @43:00
efficiency 222 mentions
2022peak 148.4/M words2026
first said 2021-09-22 by David Rosenthal @41:59
moat → 69 mentions
2022peak 41.1/M words2026
first said 2021-10-05 by David Rosenthal @6:55
secondaries 56 mentions
2022peak 34.6/M words2026
first said 2021-09-22 by David Rosenthal @0:56
LLM → 54 mentions
2022peak 49.5/M words2026
first said 2022-10-17 by Ben Gilbert @1:42:30
NFT 35 mentions
2022peak 37.9/M words2026
first said 2021-12-15 by Sam Bankman-Fried @1:14:10
AI agents 29 mentions
2022peak 62.5/M words2026
first said 2025-01-27 by David Rosenthal @1:35:11
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