The Pulse

202 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 share23% in 2026
0%30%60%2021202420262021 · 51%2023 · 38%2024 · 21%2025 · 21%2026 · 23%

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

Pushback0.8/10
05102021202420262021 · 0.52023 · 0.52024 · 0.92025 · 0.82026 · 0.8

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

Episodes measured28 in 2026
030602021202420262021 · 62023 · 602024 · 512025 · 392026 · 28

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

00m4025m8050m20172018201920202021202220232024202520262017 · 1 episodes2018 · 1 episodes2019 · 3 episodes2020 · 1 episodes2021 · 6 episodes2022 · 4 episodes2023 · 61 episodes2024 · 53 episodes2025 · 40 episodes2026 · 32 episodes2017 · median 34m2018 · median 33m2019 · median 36m2020 · median 30m2021 · median 41m2022 · median 35m2023 · median 35m2024 · median 34m2025 · median 35m2026 · median 35mepisodesmedian 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 100 mentions
2023peak 68.9/M words2025
first said 2019-10-10 by Stacy Brown-Philpot @12:32
LLM → 91 mentions
2023peak 107.1/M words2025
first said 2023-09-29 by Mustafa Suleyman @7:00
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