The Pulse

259 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 share26% in 2026
0%20%40%2021202320262021 · 37%2022 · 26%2023 · 30%2024 · 26%2025 · 25%2026 · 26%

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

Pushback1.8/10
05102021202320262021 · 1.62022 · 1.42023 · 1.42024 · 1.52025 · 1.62026 · 1.8

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

Episodes measured39 in 2026
030602021202320262021 · 62022 · 502023 · 492024 · 552025 · 592026 · 39

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

00m3025m6050m2021202220232024202520262021 · 6 episodes2022 · 50 episodes2023 · 49 episodes2024 · 55 episodes2025 · 59 episodes2026 · 40 episodes2021 · median 49m2022 · median 47m2023 · median 46m2024 · median 41m2025 · median 38m2026 · median 40mepisodesmedian 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

efficiency 769 mentions
2022peak 594.8/M words2026
first said 2021-12-02 by Dan Rutherford @36:20
LLM → 127 mentions
2022peak 164.1/M words2026
first said 2023-06-15 by Shayle Kann @2:35
crypto → 54 mentions
2022peak 59.2/M words2026
first said 2021-12-16 by Shayle Kann @21:34
moat 23 mentions
2022peak 27.2/M words2026
first said 2021-11-11 by Shail Khan @34:53
secondaries 23 mentions
2022peak 24.5/M words2026
first said 2022-08-05 by Jesse Jenkins @54:59
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