The Pulse

284 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 share37% in 2026
0%30%60%2015201720192021202320262015 · 17%2016 · 16%2017 · 13%2018 · 13%2019 · 15%2020 · 14%2021 · 14%2022 · 13%2023 · 16%2024 · 17%2025 · 53%2026 · 37%

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

Pushback0.8/10
05102015201720192021202320262015 · 0.42016 · 0.72017 · 0.62018 · 0.72019 · 0.62020 · 0.62021 · 0.72022 · 0.62023 · 0.62024 · 0.92025 · 0.72026 · 0.8

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

Episodes measured25 in 2026
030602015201720192021202320262015 · 62016 · 92017 · 112018 · 222019 · 242020 · 272021 · 282022 · 282023 · 272024 · 252025 · 522026 · 25

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

00m3050m60100m2015201620172018201920202021202220232024202520262015 · 6 episodes2016 · 9 episodes2017 · 11 episodes2018 · 22 episodes2019 · 24 episodes2020 · 27 episodes2021 · 28 episodes2022 · 28 episodes2023 · 27 episodes2024 · 25 episodes2025 · 52 episodes2026 · 25 episodes2015 · median 53m2016 · median 56m2017 · median 82m2018 · median 79m2019 · median 83m2020 · median 86m2021 · median 65m2022 · median 88m2023 · median 72m2024 · median 94m2025 · median 77m2026 · median 69mepisodesmedian 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

crypto → 104 mentions
2018peak 95.8/M words2026
first said 2016-01-28 by Venkatesh Rao @40:51
LLM → 94 mentions
2018peak 86.5/M words2026
first said 2022-11-15 by Tobi Lütke @2:32:18
secondaries 63 mentions
2018peak 32.6/M words2026
first said 2015-05-29 by Michael Lombardi @15:24
moat 54 mentions
2018peak 56.4/M words2026
first said 2015-09-18 by Sanjay Bakshi @27:44
AGI → 49 mentions
2018peak 41.9/M words2026
first said 2017-04-11 by Naval Ravikant @1:00:11
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