The Pulse

155 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 share84% in 2026
0%50%100%202320262023 · 93%2024 · 89%2025 · 89%2026 · 84%

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

Pushback3.2/10
0510202320262023 · 3.42024 · 3.32025 · 3.32026 · 3.2

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

Episodes measured27 in 2026
02550202320262023 · 262024 · 472025 · 492026 · 27

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

00m2530m5060m20232024202520262023 · 27 episodes2024 · 48 episodes2025 · 49 episodes2026 · 31 episodes2023 · median 52m2024 · median 58m2025 · median 57m2026 · median 54mepisodesmedian 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 → 536 mentions
2023peak 493/M words2026
first said 2023-06-12 by Jessica Lessin @26:19
LLM → 294 mentions
2023peak 227.2/M words2026
first said 2023-06-12 by Sam Lessin @12:56
AGI → 177 mentions
2023peak 121.9/M words2026
first said 2023-11-17 by Sam Lessin @12:34
efficiency 155 mentions
2023peak 109.3/M words2026
first said 2023-06-23 by Sam Lessin @19:17
vibe coding → 144 mentions
2023peak 179.2/M words2026
first said 2025-03-14 by Dave Morin @42:41
AI agents → 116 mentions
2023peak 233.9/M words2026
first said 2023-09-29 by Jessica Lessin @27:44
secondaries 47 mentions
2023peak 46.6/M words2026
first said 2023-06-16 by Brit Morin @39:52
NFT → 34 mentions
2023peak 38.5/M words2026
first said 2023-10-27 by Dave Morin @42:10
unicorn → 23 mentions
2023peak 21.7/M words2026
first said 2023-07-31 by Sam Lessin @40:08
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