The Pulse

41 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 share22% in 2026
0%13%25%20262025 · 23%2026 · 22%

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

Pushback2.4/10
051020262025 · 2.62026 · 2.4

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

Episodes measured15 in 2026
081520262025 · 142026 · 15

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

00m840m1580m20102012201420172018202520262010 · 3 episodes2012 · 2 episodes2014 · 3 episodes2017 · 3 episodes2018 · 1 episodes2025 · 14 episodes2026 · 15 episodes2010 · median 58m2012 · median 72m2014 · median 68m2017 · median 69m2018 · median 49m2025 · median 52m2026 · median 37mepisodesmedian 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 23 mentions
peak 1/M words
first said 2010-01-28 by Brian Chesky @20:20
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