The Pulse

2,595 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%25%50%2016201820202022202420262016 · 46%2017 · 44%2018 · 39%2019 · 41%2020 · 37%2021 · 34%2022 · 33%2023 · 26%2024 · 18%2025 · 29%2026 · 32%

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

Pushback3.3/10
05102016201820202022202420262016 · 2.72017 · 32018 · 3.32019 · 3.42020 · 3.52021 · 3.52022 · 2.92023 · 2.32024 · 1.52025 · 2.22026 · 3.3

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

Episodes measured33 in 2026
02505002016201820202022202420262016 · 4252017 · 3592018 · 3362019 · 2782020 · 2912021 · 2942022 · 2902023 · 1872024 · 712025 · 272026 · 33

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

00m25013m50025m201620172018201920202021202220232024202520262016 · 426 episodes2017 · 360 episodes2018 · 336 episodes2019 · 279 episodes2020 · 291 episodes2021 · 294 episodes2022 · 291 episodes2023 · 187 episodes2024 · 71 episodes2025 · 27 episodes2026 · 33 episodes2016 · median 21m2017 · median 22m2018 · median 20m2019 · median 19m2020 · median 20m2021 · median 19m2022 · median 20m2023 · median 19m2024 · median 21m2025 · median 24m2026 · median 23mepisodesmedian 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 1,829 mentions
2016peak 279.8/M words2024
first said 2016-01-22 by John Colgan @4:40
crypto → 860 mentions
2016peak 322.9/M words2024
first said 2016-08-03 by Nathan Latka @1:26
PLG → 238 mentions
2016peak 86.8/M words2024
first said 2019-07-25 by Lateef Nanji @5:12
unicorn → 194 mentions
2016peak 42.6/M words2024
first said 2016-02-23 by Nathan Latka @14:16
moat → 115 mentions
2016peak 20.3/M words2024
first said 2016-01-23 by Matt Gallant @8:45
NFT → 80 mentions
2016peak 44.3/M words2024
first said 2021-08-05 by Josh Lee @19:16
LLM → 37 mentions
2016peak 17.4/M words2024
first said 2023-08-11 by Justin Shum @10:46
metaverse 32 mentions
2016peak 13.3/M words2024
first said 2021-12-15 by Nathan Latka @2:08
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 2,600 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.