The Pulse

369 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 share65% in 2026
0%40%80%2021202320262021 · 80%2022 · 66%2023 · 67%2024 · 72%2025 · 66%2026 · 65%

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

Pushback1.5/10
05102021202320262021 · 1.92022 · 1.82023 · 1.52024 · 1.52025 · 1.52026 · 1.5

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

Episodes measured23 in 2026
0501002021202320262021 · 892022 · 412023 · 572024 · 872025 · 572026 · 23

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

00m5040m10080m201520202021202220232024202520262015 · 2 episodes2020 · 4 episodes2021 · 89 episodes2022 · 42 episodes2023 · 59 episodes2024 · 93 episodes2025 · 57 episodes2026 · 23 episodes2015 · median 32m2020 · median 54m2021 · median 65m2022 · median 66m2023 · median 64m2024 · median 56m2025 · median 60m2026 · median 60mepisodesmedian 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 → 1,127 mentions
2021peak 410.6/M words2026
first said 2021-03-10 by Sean Puri @12:48
NFT → 318 mentions
2021peak 162.4/M words2026
first said 2021-03-10 by Sam Parr @5:41
efficiency 130 mentions
2021peak 41.2/M words2026
first said 2020-04-03 by Shaan Puri @18:22
secondaries 86 mentions
2021peak 28.6/M words2026
first said 2020-03-12 by Shaan Puri @39:19
LLM → 82 mentions
2021peak 65/M words2026
first said 2023-03-30 by Dharmesh Shah @5:48
moat → 70 mentions
2021peak 51.6/M words2026
first said 2021-04-09 by Sam Parr @21:21
unicorn 66 mentions
2021peak 24.7/M words2026
first said 2020-03-12 by Shaan Puri @40:27
metaverse → 54 mentions
2021peak 21.5/M words2026
first said 2021-06-16 by Mike Maples @12:23
AI agents → 44 mentions
2021peak 26.3/M words2026
first said 2023-10-12 by Shaan Puri @37:20
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