The Pulse

79 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 share14% in 2026
0%8%15%202320262023 · 13%2024 · 13%2025 · 12%2026 · 14%

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

Pushback1.4/10
0510202320262023 · 0.72024 · 12025 · 1.32026 · 1.4

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

Episodes measured13 in 2026
01325202320262023 · 192024 · 222025 · 252026 · 13

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

00m1340m2580m20232024202520262023 · 19 episodes2024 · 22 episodes2025 · 25 episodes2026 · 13 episodes2023 · median 72m2024 · median 66m2025 · median 69m2026 · median 64mepisodesmedian 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

PLG → 126 mentions
2023peak 211.4/M words2025
first said 2023-07-13 by Noah Desai Weiss @17:45
LLM → 124 mentions
2023peak 168.5/M words2025
first said 2023-09-07 by Brett Berson @9:57
efficiency 75 mentions
2023peak 81.2/M words2025
first said 2023-06-22 by Tara Seshan @39:47
moat → 26 mentions
2023peak 49.5/M words2025
first said 2023-12-21 by Brett Berson @55:37
AI agents → 24 mentions
2023peak 23.5/M words2025
first said 2024-02-15 by Amjad Masad @0:18
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