The Pulse

314 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 share68% in 2026
0%40%80%20202022202420262020 · 49%2021 · 58%2022 · 53%2023 · 62%2024 · 68%2025 · 57%2026 · 68%

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

Pushback0.7/10
051020202022202420262020 · 0.92021 · 1.12022 · 1.92023 · 0.82024 · 0.82025 · 0.82026 · 0.7

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

Episodes measured35 in 2026
0408020202022202420262020 · 522021 · 362022 · 132023 · 502024 · 512025 · 662026 · 35

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

00m4020m8040m20202021202220232024202520262020 · 53 episodes2021 · 39 episodes2022 · 13 episodes2023 · 53 episodes2024 · 53 episodes2025 · 67 episodes2026 · 36 episodes2020 · median 35m2021 · median 37m2022 · median 32m2023 · median 33m2024 · median 34m2025 · median 34m2026 · median 34mepisodesmedian 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

moat → 110 mentions
2020peak 214.8/M words2026
first said 2020-04-16 by Rob Walling @10:32
efficiency 110 mentions
2020peak 104.9/M words2026
first said 2020-04-07 by Matt Wensing @4:26
crypto → 75 mentions
2020peak 92.2/M words2026
first said 2020-11-03 by Rob Walling @13:06
LLM → 69 mentions
2020peak 105.4/M words2026
first said 2022-12-20 by Einar Vollset @17:09
unicorn 66 mentions
2020peak 60.4/M words2026
first said 2020-04-14 by Rob Walling @0:49
PLG → 53 mentions
2020peak 108.5/M words2026
first said 2021-08-16 by Rob Walling @25:50
AI agents → 43 mentions
2020peak 105.4/M words2026
first said 2024-04-09 by Derek Reimer @43:30
secondaries 22 mentions
2020peak 23.4/M words2026
first said 2020-04-07 by Matt Wensing @4:33
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