The Pulse

206 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 share1% in 2026
0%1%2%202420262024 · 0%2025 · 0%2026 · 1%

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

Pushback0.3/10
0510202420262024 · 0.22025 · 0.22026 · 0.3

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

Episodes measured56 in 2026
075150202420262024 · 112025 · 1392026 · 56

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

00m7525m15050m2024202520262024 · 11 episodes2025 · 139 episodes2026 · 56 episodes2024 · median 25m2025 · median 38m2026 · 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

AI agents → 188 mentions
2025peak 130.9/M words2026
first said 2025-01-09 by Itamar Novik @4:29
efficiency 161 mentions
2025peak 107.2/M words2026
first said 2024-11-14 by Nick Jane @19:56
crypto → 149 mentions
2025peak 189.3/M words2026
first said 2025-02-18 by Christian Marquez @17:00
LLM → 129 mentions
2025peak 120.8/M words2026
first said 2024-11-12 by Zach Posner @6:39
unicorn → 62 mentions
2025peak 43.9/M words2026
first said 2024-12-03 by Melissa Kozak @13:30
moat → 45 mentions
2025peak 44.3/M words2026
first said 2025-04-15 by Sean Tepper @17:49
NFT → 22 mentions
2025peak 21.4/M words2026
first said 2025-02-20 by James McDowell @9:05
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