The Pulse

373 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 share5% in 2026
0%3%6%20192021202320262019 · 1%2020 · 0%2021 · 2%2022 · 3%2023 · 4%2024 · 4%2025 · 3%2026 · 5%

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

Pushback1.2/10
051020192021202320262019 · 0.42020 · 0.62021 · 0.52022 · 0.62023 · 1.12024 · 1.22025 · 1.22026 · 1.2

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

Episodes measured42 in 2026
0306020192021202320262019 · 252020 · 502021 · 522022 · 522023 · 392024 · 532025 · 592026 · 42

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

00m3040m6080m201920202021202220232024202520262019 · 25 episodes2020 · 50 episodes2021 · 52 episodes2022 · 52 episodes2023 · 40 episodes2024 · 53 episodes2025 · 59 episodes2026 · 42 episodes2019 · median 44m2020 · median 46m2021 · median 45m2022 · median 48m2023 · median 61m2024 · median 64m2025 · median 63m2026 · median 67mepisodesmedian 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 330 mentions
2020peak 133.7/M words2026
first said 2019-07-15 by Siddharth Ahluwalia @16:42
LLM → 286 mentions
2020peak 390/M words2026
first said 2023-11-03 by Anand Lunia @55:46
crypto → 164 mentions
2020peak 195.3/M words2026
first said 2020-02-17 by Anand Lunia @56:11
secondaries → 156 mentions
2020peak 91.7/M words2026
first said 2019-07-10 by Ameera Shah @5:07
moat → 115 mentions
2020peak 84.9/M words2026
first said 2019-08-16 by Karthik Reddy @37:55
PLG → 62 mentions
2020peak 55.7/M words2026
first said 2021-12-06 by Anand Jain @27:11
AGI → 36 mentions
2020peak 25.9/M words2026
first said 2024-02-02 by Manoj Agarwal @14:06
vibe coding → 26 mentions
2020peak 35.8/M words2026
first said 2025-05-10 by Ananda @4:54
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