The Pulse

165 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 share10% in 2026
0%5%10%2021202320262021 · 0%2022 · 0%2023 · 1%2024 · 2%2025 · 7%2026 · 10%

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

Pushback1/10
05102021202320262021 · 0.42022 · 0.52023 · 0.62024 · 12025 · 0.82026 · 1

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

Episodes measured10 in 2026
025502021202320262021 · 52022 · 482023 · 492024 · 292025 · 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

00m2525m5050m2021202220232024202520262021 · 5 episodes2022 · 48 episodes2023 · 49 episodes2024 · 29 episodes2025 · 24 episodes2026 · 10 episodes2021 · median 19m2022 · median 22m2023 · median 33m2024 · median 33m2025 · median 36m2026 · median 45mepisodesmedian 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 → 308 mentions
2023peak 272.2/M words2023
first said 2021-11-12 by Stephen Lacey @2:02
crypto → 51 mentions
2023peak 56.3/M words2023
first said 2022-04-20 by Stephen Lacey @2:34
LLM → 28 mentions
2023peak 50.1/M words2023
first said 2023-04-12 by Stephen Lacey @7:27
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