The Pulse

579 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 share20% in 2026
0%15%30%201720192021202320262017 · 26%2018 · 22%2019 · 23%2020 · 22%2021 · 18%2022 · 21%2023 · 22%2024 · 20%2025 · 22%2026 · 20%

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

Pushback0.5/10
0510201720192021202320262017 · 0.92018 · 12019 · 12020 · 0.72021 · 0.62022 · 0.62023 · 0.52024 · 0.52025 · 0.52026 · 0.5

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

Episodes measured37 in 2026
050100201720192021202320262017 · 332018 · 472019 · 482020 · 622021 · 842022 · 742023 · 702024 · 672025 · 552026 · 37

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

00m5040m10080m20172018201920202021202220232024202520262017 · 33 episodes2018 · 47 episodes2019 · 48 episodes2020 · 62 episodes2021 · 84 episodes2022 · 74 episodes2023 · 70 episodes2024 · 69 episodes2025 · 55 episodes2026 · 37 episodes2017 · median 65m2018 · median 63m2019 · median 57m2020 · median 61m2021 · median 61m2022 · median 57m2023 · median 60m2024 · median 58m2025 · median 58m2026 · median 63mepisodesmedian 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 → 1,419 mentions
2017peak 813.1/M words2026
first said 2018-01-22 by Bill Spitz @23:13
efficiency → 800 mentions
2017peak 151.5/M words2026
first said 2017-04-13 by Andre Perold @15:57
AI agents → 488 mentions
2017peak 97.6/M words2026
first said 2017-04-13 by Ted Seides @1:33
NFT → 285 mentions
2017peak 170.1/M words2026
first said 2021-03-15 by Seth Ginns @24:32
moat → 242 mentions
2017peak 82.1/M words2026
first said 2017-07-10 by Tom Russo @40:57
LLM → 63 mentions
2017peak 60.6/M words2026
first said 2022-03-21 by Renata Quintini @54:30
unicorn → 49 mentions
2017peak 10.9/M words2026
first said 2017-09-18 by Scott Malpass @37:49
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