The Pulse

190 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 share27% in 2025
0%15%30%202320252023 · 12%2024 · 20%2025 · 27%

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

Pushback3.5/10
0510202320252023 · 4.12024 · 2.42025 · 3.5

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

Episodes measured150 in 2025
075150202320252023 · 122024 · 282025 · 150

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

00m7520m15040m2023202420252023 · 12 episodes2024 · 28 episodes2025 · 150 episodes2023 · median 20m2024 · median 31m2025 · median 32mepisodesmedian 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 82 mentions
2025peak 70.9/M words2025
first said 2023-09-06 by Duval (Founder of Lotus) @12:03
crypto 76 mentions
2025peak 78.9/M words2025
first said 2024-04-24 by Josh Muccio @0:07
unicorn → 50 mentions
2025peak 22.9/M words2025
first said 2023-10-18 by Josh Muccio @0:56
moat → 40 mentions
2025peak 28.6/M words2025
first said 2024-04-10 by Beck Bamberger @16:23
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