The Pulse

225 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 share90% in 2025
0%50%100%2021202320252021 · 93%2022 · 46%2023 · 53%2024 · 69%2025 · 90%

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

Pushback0/10
05102021202320252021 · 0.12022 · 1.52023 · 0.72024 · 0.42025 · 0

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

Episodes measured8 in 2025
040802021202320252021 · 212022 · 212023 · 612024 · 262025 · 8

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

00m4015m8030m2020202120222023202420252020 · 3 episodes2021 · 38 episodes2022 · 25 episodes2023 · 77 episodes2024 · 44 episodes2025 · 24 episodes2020 · median 17m2021 · median 17m2022 · median 30m2023 · median 23m2024 · median 24m2025 · median 18mepisodesmedian 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 97 mentions
2023peak 86.8/M words2023
first said 2021-03-19 by Alex Lieberman @13:10
crypto → 68 mentions
2023peak 10.3/M words2023
first said 2021-03-03 by Alex Lieberman @11:49
moat → 24 mentions
2023peak 26.9/M words2023
first said 2020-12-28 by Alex Lieberman @13:35
NFT → 21 mentions
2023peak 2.1/M words2023
first said 2021-06-04 by Alex Lieberman @4:02
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