The Pulse

259 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 share24% in 2026
0%20%40%2022202420262022 · 25%2023 · 32%2024 · 32%2025 · 23%2026 · 24%

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

Pushback1.5/10
05102022202420262022 · 1.22023 · 0.82024 · 1.22025 · 1.32026 · 1.5

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

Episodes measured43 in 2026
0501002022202420262022 · 152023 · 182024 · 812025 · 972026 · 43

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

00m5025m10050m202220232024202520262022 · 15 episodes2023 · 18 episodes2024 · 86 episodes2025 · 97 episodes2026 · 43 episodes2022 · median 28m2023 · median 39m2024 · median 39m2025 · median 50m2026 · median 48mepisodesmedian 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 246 mentions
2024peak 152.4/M words2026
first said 2022-01-01 by Mallorie Brodie @8:21
crypto → 203 mentions
2024peak 97/M words2026
first said 2023-02-15 by Mike Silagadze @5:10
LLM → 176 mentions
2024peak 92.4/M words2026
first said 2024-03-11 by Scott Stevenson @23:00
AI agents → 143 mentions
2024peak 152.4/M words2026
first said 2024-10-03 by Pablo Srugo @3:24
unicorn → 123 mentions
2024peak 76.6/M words2026
first said 2022-03-01 by Pablo Srugo @1:18
PLG → 78 mentions
2024peak 58.3/M words2026
first said 2024-05-06 by Poojan Kumar @25:10
NFT → 49 mentions
2024peak 67/M words2026
first said 2022-09-01 by Pablo Srugo @4:48
moat 48 mentions
2024peak 25.1/M words2026
first said 2023-03-15 by Aydin Mirzaee (Aiden) @28:39
AGI → 21 mentions
2024peak 22.3/M words2026
first said 2024-08-12 by Pablo Srugo @13:02
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