The Pulse

789 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 share38% in 2026
0%20%40%2016201820202022202420262016 · 28%2017 · 30%2018 · 32%2019 · 33%2020 · 32%2021 · 32%2022 · 35%2023 · 36%2024 · 37%2025 · 37%2026 · 38%

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

Pushback1.5/10
05102016201820202022202420262016 · 0.82017 · 12018 · 0.92019 · 0.92020 · 0.72021 · 0.82022 · 0.92023 · 12024 · 1.12025 · 1.42026 · 1.5

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

Episodes measured67 in 2026
0751502016201820202022202420262016 · 162017 · 562018 · 552019 · 572020 · 1082021 · 742022 · 822023 · 892024 · 972025 · 882026 · 67

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

00m7540m15080m201620172018201920202021202220232024202520262016 · 16 episodes2017 · 56 episodes2018 · 55 episodes2019 · 57 episodes2020 · 108 episodes2021 · 74 episodes2022 · 82 episodes2023 · 89 episodes2024 · 97 episodes2025 · 88 episodes2026 · 67 episodes2016 · median 32m2017 · median 41m2018 · median 46m2019 · median 56m2020 · median 30m2021 · median 63m2022 · median 67m2023 · median 58m2024 · median 55m2025 · median 56m2026 · median 53mepisodesmedian 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 355 mentions
2017peak 92.5/M words2026
first said 2016-10-17 by Joe Gebbia @37:04
crypto → 114 mentions
2017peak 68.1/M words2026
first said 2018-04-02 by Guy Raz @1:12
NFT → 68 mentions
2017peak 59.1/M words2026
first said 2021-08-02 by Guy Raz @52:11
secondaries 58 mentions
2017peak 12.5/M words2026
first said 2017-05-22 by Rod Canion @26:40
moat 32 mentions
2017peak 8/M words2026
first said 2017-02-16 by Ethan Brown @16:09
unicorn → 26 mentions
2017peak 9.1/M words2026
first said 2018-05-07 by Guy Raz @1:38
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