The Pulse

39 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 share25% in 2026
0%20%40%20262025 · 39%2026 · 25%

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

Pushback1.1/10
051020262025 · 0.62026 · 1.1

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

Episodes measured32 in 2026
0204020262025 · 72026 · 32

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

00m2075m40150m202520262025 · 7 episodes2026 · 32 episodes2025 · median 123m2026 · median 88mepisodesmedian 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 110 mentions
2026peak 135/M words2026
first said 2025-09-28 by Daniel Ek @1:06:29
crypto → 44 mentions
2026peak 72.5/M words2026
first said 2026-03-01 by David Senra @0:02
LLM → 38 mentions
2026peak 54.3/M words2026
first said 2025-09-28 by Daniel Ek @1:04:40
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