The Pulse

168 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 share100% in 2026
0%50%100%202320262023 · 100%2024 · 100%2025 · 100%2026 · 100%

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

Pushback0/10
0510202320262023 · 02024 · 02025 · 02026 · 0

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

Episodes measured10 in 2026
03060202320262023 · 62024 · 522025 · 242026 · 10

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

00m5040m10080m20232024202520262023 · 14 episodes2024 · 95 episodes2025 · 36 episodes2026 · 23 episodes2023 · median 61m2024 · median 59m2025 · median 60m2026 · median 51mepisodesmedian 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 205 mentions
2024peak 134.3/M words2025
first said 2023-10-06 by Podcast Host @14:23
moat 46 mentions
2024peak 27.2/M words2025
first said 2024-02-04 by Podcast Host @56:56
secondaries 31 mentions
2024peak 16.5/M words2025
first said 2023-10-03 by Podcast Host @42:58
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