The Pulse

66 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 share18% in 2026
0%10%20%20262025 · 12%2026 · 18%

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

Pushback1/10
051020262025 · 0.82026 · 1

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

Episodes measured34 in 2026
0204020262025 · 312026 · 34

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

00m20100m40200m2024202520262024 · 1 episodes2025 · 31 episodes2026 · 34 episodes2024 · median 173m2025 · median 89m2026 · median 78mepisodesmedian 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 203 mentions
2025peak 223.8/M words2026
first said 2024-12-20 by Patrick O'Shaughnessy @1:15:14
LLM → 96 mentions
2025peak 99.7/M words2026
first said 2024-12-20 by Jared Kushner @2:30:34
secondaries 43 mentions
2025peak 48.2/M words2026
first said 2025-04-29 by Cliff Sosin @14:48
moat 40 mentions
2025peak 46.8/M words2026
first said 2024-12-20 by Jared Kushner @52:24
crypto → 35 mentions
2025peak 46.4/M words2026
first said 2025-04-15 by Neil Mehta @53:07
AGI → 23 mentions
2025peak 21.4/M words2026
first said 2024-12-20 by Jared Kushner @2:39:56
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