The Pulse

158 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 share55% in 2026
0%30%60%202420262024 · 46%2025 · 49%2026 · 55%

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

Pushback0.5/10
0510202420262024 · 0.72025 · 0.62026 · 0.5

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

Episodes measured55 in 2026
04080202420262024 · 382025 · 622026 · 55

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

00m4040m8080m2024202520262024 · 38 episodes2025 · 64 episodes2026 · 56 episodes2024 · median 77m2025 · median 65m2026 · median 62mepisodesmedian 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

LLM → 22 mentions
2024peak 27.3/M words2026
first said 2025-04-09 by Dara Ladjevardian @9:34
crypto 22 mentions
2024peak 24.5/M words2026
first said 2024-10-08 by Codie Sanchez @1:41:04
moat 20 mentions
2024peak 22.5/M words2026
first said 2024-08-07 by Codie Sanchez @41:09
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