The Pulse

181 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 share20% in 2026
0%13%25%202420262024 · 18%2025 · 19%2026 · 20%

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

Pushback0.8/10
0510202420262024 · 0.62025 · 0.92026 · 0.8

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

Episodes measured81 in 2026
050100202420262024 · 282025 · 722026 · 81

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

00m5030m10060m2024202520262024 · 28 episodes2025 · 72 episodes2026 · 81 episodes2024 · median 51m2025 · median 50m2026 · 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

AI agents → 244 mentions
2024peak 184.5/M words2026
first said 2024-03-03 by Molly O'Shea @22:04
efficiency 241 mentions
2024peak 247.1/M words2026
first said 2024-02-01 by Molly O'Shea @14:48
crypto → 221 mentions
2024peak 179.3/M words2026
first said 2024-02-01 by Molly O'Shea @23:21
AGI → 179 mentions
2024peak 156.8/M words2026
first said 2024-08-23 by Molly O'Shea @2:16
LLM → 129 mentions
2024peak 112/M words2026
first said 2024-03-03 by Alex Kolicich @23:54
moat 85 mentions
2024peak 77.2/M words2026
first said 2024-02-01 by Xander Oltmann @7:17
unicorn → 49 mentions
2024peak 61.8/M words2026
first said 2024-03-03 by Alex Kolicich @17:14
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