The Pulse

418 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 share32% in 2026
0%20%40%201720192021202320262017 · 8%2018 · 12%2019 · 1%2020 · 21%2021 · 10%2022 · 10%2023 · 19%2024 · 28%2025 · 31%2026 · 32%

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

Pushback1.1/10
0510201720192021202320262017 · 0.62018 · 0.42019 · 0.32020 · 0.82021 · 0.62022 · 0.62023 · 0.82024 · 1.12025 · 0.92026 · 1.1

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

Episodes measured36 in 2026
04080201720192021202320262017 · 132018 · 162019 · 392020 · 172021 · 472022 · 742023 · 692024 · 532025 · 522026 · 36

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

00m4030m8060m201520172018201920202021202220232024202520262015 · 1 episodes2017 · 13 episodes2018 · 16 episodes2019 · 39 episodes2020 · 18 episodes2021 · 47 episodes2022 · 74 episodes2023 · 69 episodes2024 · 53 episodes2025 · 52 episodes2026 · 36 episodes2015 · median 60m2017 · median 31m2018 · median 31m2019 · median 29m2020 · median 40m2021 · median 36m2022 · median 32m2023 · median 34m2024 · median 37m2025 · median 38m2026 · median 49mepisodesmedian 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

PLG → 607 mentions
2021peak 390.1/M words2026
first said 2019-07-30 by Roger Scott @11:02
unicorn → 305 mentions
2021peak 306.7/M words2026
first said 2017-05-13 by Byron Deeter @2:33
LLM → 242 mentions
2021peak 220.9/M words2026
first said 2023-09-20 by Katie Ray @18:57
vibe coding → 201 mentions
2021peak 353.1/M words2026
first said 2025-05-28 by Kyle Norton @7:05
moat → 144 mentions
2021peak 96.1/M words2026
first said 2017-08-23 by Devdutt Yellurkar @14:21
secondaries 56 mentions
2021peak 71.5/M words2026
first said 2017-07-07 by Interviewer / Host @3:29
crypto → 28 mentions
2021peak 18.5/M words2026
first said 2018-05-03 by Byron Deeter @1:15
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